Patent ID: 11894947
Assignee: CLOUDFLARE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 12:
13. The distributed cloud computing network of claim 8, further comprising:
wherein the first IP packet is received from a client device;
wherein the second operations further include:
receiving a second IP packet from the first origin server of the first origin network over the PNI connection, wherein the second IP packet is in response to the first IP packet;
encapsulating the second IP packet inside a second outer packet to generate a second encapsulated packet that uses IP as a transport protocol; and
transmitting the second encapsulated packet from the second data center to the first data center;

wherein the first operations further include:
decapsulating the second encapsulated packet to reveal the second IP packet; and
transmitting the second IP packet from the first data center to the client device.