Patent ID: 11863448
Assignee: CLOUDFLARE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A method, in a client device, of traffic optimization in a virtual private network (VPN), the method comprising:
establishing a first VPN connection with a first server according to a first VPN route configuration that specifies a first VPN route to the first server, wherein the first server is one of a plurality of servers;
forwarding a set of one or more flows of traffic through the first VPN connection to the first server;
receiving a second VPN route configuration that specifies a second VPN route to a second server of the plurality of servers for establishing a second VPN connection, wherein the second VPN connection satisfies a set of traffic optimization criteria;
establishing the second VPN connection with the second server according to the second VPN route configuration; and
forwarding at least one of the set of one or more flows through the second VPN connection to the second server.