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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2026
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2023
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
David Tang, Cambridge, MA (US);
Akamai Technologies, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A service for automatic discovery of locations at which instances of an internal enterprise application are located. The service is configured to facilitate routing of connection requests directed to the internal enterprise application, which is hosted in distinct enterprise locations. The service works in association with a set of connectors that each have an associated Internet Protocol (IP) address (typically of a device to which the connector is coupled) at which it is reachable and through which a connection to an internal enterprise application instance can be proxied. Connections to the internal enterprise application are routable along a network path from a client to a given connector through a set of intermediary nodes. Using information collected from the connectors, the service performs a series of correlations to enable service provider mapping technologies to make both global and local traffic mapping decisions for these internal enterprise resources. In a variant embodiment wherein connectors can access the application across site-to-site connections, the system also leverages connector-to-origin latency data to facilitate a full path mapping solution.