Patent ID: 11949647
Assignee: CLOUDFLARE, INC.
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 19:
20. The distributed edge compute and routing service of claim 19, wherein the operations further comprise:
receiving, at a third one of the plurality of edge servers from a second tunnel client residing on a second origin server, a second tunnel connection request that requests a second tunnel be established between the third one of the plurality of edge servers and the second tunnel client, wherein the second tunnel connection request identifies the hostname;
determining that the first tunnel exists that connects the first one of the plurality of edge servers to the first origin server;
assigning a second IP address for the second tunnel;
causing a second DNS record to be added or changed that associates the hostname with the assigned third IP address for the second tunnel; and
creating a load balancer to balance traffic across the first tunnel and the second tunnel.