Cloudflare had 18 patents in cybersecurity during Q2 2024. Cloudflare Inc filed patents in Q2 2024 related to establishing tunnels between edge servers, configuring GRE tunnels in cloud computing networks, detecting phishing emails using hash representations, facilitating user authentication for third-party applications, and enforcing traffic policies for IoT devices in distributed cloud computing networks. GlobalData’s report on Cloudflare gives a 360-degree view of the company including its patenting strategy. Buy the report here.
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Cloudflare had no grants in cybersecurity as a theme in Q2 2024.
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Application: Establishing and using a tunnel from an origin server in a distributed edge compute and routing service (Patent ID: US20240195780A1)
Cloudflare Inc. has filed a patent for a method that involves establishing and using a tunnel in a distributed edge compute and routing service. The method includes receiving a tunnel connection request from a tunnel client residing on an origin server, assigning an IP address for the tunnel, updating DNS records to associate the hostname with the assigned IP address, installing routing rules in edge servers, and transmitting requests over the tunnel to the origin server. The patent also covers additional operations such as converting requests to HTTP/2, selecting edge servers based on proximity, authorizing tunnel connection requests, acquiring certificates for secure connections, and creating load balancers to balance traffic across multiple tunnels.
Furthermore, the patent includes claims for a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium that provides instructions for executing the method described above. These instructions involve receiving tunnel connection requests, assigning IP addresses, updating DNS records, installing routing rules, transmitting requests over tunnels, converting requests to HTTP/2, selecting edge servers based on proximity, authorizing requests, acquiring certificates for secure connections, and creating load balancers to balance traffic. The patent also covers an apparatus with processors and a storage medium storing instructions for performing the operations related to establishing and using tunnels in a distributed edge compute and routing service.
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