US Patent Issued to CLOUDFLARE on Oct. 28 for "Secure private traffic exchange in a unified network service" (Illinois Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,457,196, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to CLOUDFLARE INC. (San Francisco).

"Secure private traffic exchange in a unified network service" was invented by Nicholas Alexander Wondra (Savoy, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Traffic is received at an interface of a compute server. Identity information associated with the traffic is determined including an identifier of a customer to which the traffic is attributable. An egress policy configured for the first customer is used to determine whether the traffic is allowed to be transmitted to a destination where that destination is a resource of a second customer. If the traffic is allowed ...