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Transparent session migration across servers

US7552218B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateAug 12, 2004
Grant dateJun 23, 2009
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Expiry dateNov 16, 2026

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L67/148
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Techniques allow a client to be switched from a session on a server to another session on another server in a way that is a transparent to the application for which the initial session was established. Thus, under transparent session migration, a client is switched between sessions without executing application instructions tailored to accomplish the migration. Instead, a client-side interface component, through which the application interacts with the server, handles details of migration, modifying the internal state of the client-side interface component to effect the same. Legacy applications do not have to be modified in order to institute techniques described herein.

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