Tunneling protcol and gateway for distributed computing environments
US10798183B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Dec 13, 2018 |
| Grant date | Oct 6, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 13, 2039 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/10
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
Techniques are described for managing communications with applications executing in a distributed computing environment, through use of a tunneling protocol that is employed by a client-side gateway and a server-side application router to enable client-server communications that would not otherwise be supported within the distributed computing environment. A cloud computing service may enforce network security policies, such as restricting network traffic to and from its hosted applications to use an application layer protocol such as a version of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which may not be feasible for legacy applications and/or applications of a particular type or domain. The implementations described herein provide a mechanism that supports the deployment and operation of an application in a cloud computing environment, where such an application may employ any suitable communication protocol that may not be supported by the environment.
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