Application programmer interface platform with direct data center access
US11637831B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Oct 9, 2019 |
| Grant date | Apr 25, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 30, 2040 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L67/60
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An application programming interface (API) platform accesses cloud-based software services in a cloud computing system. API requests used in the API platform include a tenant specific endpoint (TSE) that uses a unique tenant identifier and an API endpoint as a URL domain. The unique tenant identifier identifies a tenant associated with the API request and the API endpoint identifies one of the cloud-based software services. The combination of the unique tenant identifier and the API endpoint in the domain of the TSE maps to an IP address for a specific software service in a specific one of the data centers in the cloud computing system assigned to the tenant. This allows API requests to be routed directly to the tenant specific data centers without first being routed through a central routing service.
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