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

Claim 5:
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:
wherein the first IP packet is received from a client device;
receiving, at the second data center, 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;
transmitting the second encapsulated packet from the second data center to the first data center;
decapsulating, at the first data center, 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.