Patent ID: 11936518
Assignee: EQUINIX, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 14:
15. A method comprising:
receiving, by an interconnection platform for one or more cloud exchanges located in respective metropolitan areas, from a customer device associated with a first customer of a cloud exchange provider of the one or more cloud exchanges, a first request invoking a first endpoint of endpoints, the first request requesting a virtual circuit be configured in the one or more cloud exchanges to enable communications between a port for the first customer and a first cloud service,
wherein the interconnection platform includes one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) that include the endpoints, the endpoints representing different resources of the one or more cloud exchanges to provide, to customers of a cloud exchange provider of the one or more cloud exchanges, programmable access to interconnection assets of the one or more cloud exchanges,
wherein the interconnection platform includes one or more cloud exchange API services for accessing services of the interconnection platform to modify network infrastructures of any of the one or more cloud exchanges;
receiving, by the interconnection platform from a provider device associated with a cloud service provider for the first cloud service, a second request invoking the first endpoint of the endpoints; and
orchestrating, by the interconnection platform, in response to determining the second request indicates the cloud service provider accepts the virtual circuit, the cloud exchange API services to modify the corresponding network infrastructures of the one or more cloud exchanges to create the virtual circuit to enable communications between the port for the first customer and the first cloud service.