Patent ID: 11949661
Assignee: ZSCALER, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  G | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer readable code stored thereon for programming a device to perform steps of:
obtaining predetermined criteria for selecting connectors for private application access in a cloud-based system, wherein the predetermined criteria specify which connectors to utilize when providing application access based on geographic data and performance, and wherein the predetermined criteria further specified a tenant-based order for which connectors to utilize;
responsive to a request to access an application, by a user device, located in any of a public cloud, a private cloud, and an enterprise network, wherein the user device is remote over the Internet, determining a specific connector coupled to the application to utilize as the appropriate connector based on the predetermined criteria; and
responsive to a user of the user device being permitted to access the application, stitching together connections between the cloud-based system, the application, and the user device to provide access to the application.