Patent ID: 11895009
Assignee: CLOUDFLARE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 7:
8. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that provides instructions that, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform operations including:
receiving a request from a client device at a first compute node of a plurality of compute nodes at a first data center of a plurality of data centers of a distributed cloud computing network;
determining a destination of the request;
determining an optimized route for transmitting the request to the destination of the request, wherein the optimized route is based at least in part on characteristics of a plurality of transit connections between data centers of the distributed cloud computing network, wherein the optimized route has a first IP address that:
encodes an identification of which of the plurality of transit connections is to be used to deliver the request,
encodes an identifier of the first data center of the plurality of data centers, and
encodes an identification of which of the plurality of transit connections is used for ingress for responding to the request; and

transmitting the request to a next hop as defined by the optimized route over the identified one of the plurality of transit connections.