Maintain single session with a single application across multiple clients

• US 10,367,890 B2
• Filed: 03/29/2017
• Issued: 07/30/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 09/14/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Thakkar, Dhiraj D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Kim T
• Application Number:
  US15/473,493
• Publication Number:
  US 20180077244A1
• Time in Patent Office: 853 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066

Abstract

A system and method for facilitating interaction between computing sessions. An example method provides for first web application to use a same session as a user session of a second web application that is external to the first web application. The first web application can replicate portions of a session Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and submit one or more modified URLs to the second web application. The second web application then handles communications with both the browser and the first web application as a single session. In a particular embodiment, the second web application need not be modified to handle this type of 3-way single session.

Claims

1. A method for facilitating interaction between computing sessions, the method comprising:

initiating a first session with a first application;

providing interface information to the first application via the first session, wherein the interface information characterizes a second session with a second application;

causing the first application to use the second application by employing the interface information that characterizes the second session of the second application in one or more messages transferred from the first application to the second application, wherein causing further includes;

causing the first application to use functionality of the second application, wherein the functionality of the second application is accessed by the first application using the first session and the interface information that characterizes the second session of the second application, thereby causing a request message from the first session to the second session to appear to the second application as coming from the second session.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second application includes a web application, and wherein the method further includes:

using the web application to selectively convey the interface information about the second session to at least one of the first and second sessions, including the first session, thereby enabling the at least one of the first and second sessions to act as part of the second session, and thereby enabling access to data and functionality of the web application by one or more external applications via the at least one of the first and second sessions.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the first application includes a cloud-based enterprise application, and wherein the second application includes a web application that is external to the cloud-based enterprise application.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein initiating further includes:

sending a first login request and first login credentials from a browser to the first application, the first application initiating the first session in response to the first login request and first login credentials.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein providing interface information further includes:

sending a second login request and second login credentials from a browser to the second application, the second application initiating the second session in response to the second login request and second login credentials.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein providing interface information further includes:

delivering, from a browser, information characterizing the second session, wherein the second session has been initiated via the browser via one or more request messages sent from the browser to the second application via the second session, wherein the information characterizing the second session includes the interface information.

7. The method of claim 6, further including:

employing the browser to obtain the interface information, the interface information characterizing the second session, based on data exchanged between the browser and the second session after initiation of the second session.

8. The method of claim 6, wherein the interface information includes a portion of a session Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

9. The method of claim 8, wherein delivering further includes:

replicating one or more portions of the session URL to create one or more modified URLs; and

employing the first session to use the one or more modified URLs to interface with the second session, thereby enabling the first session to act as part of the second session to use data or functionality of the second application via the second session.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the second session includes a user session, and wherein the second session includes a session used by a cloud-based enterprise application, thereby augmenting data or functionality used by the second session through use of the first session.

11. A tangible processor-readable storage device including instructions executable by one or more processors for:

initiating a first session with a first application;

providing interface information to the first application via the first session, wherein the interface information characterizes a second session with a second application; and

causing the first application to use the second application by employing the interface information that characterizes the second session of the second application in one or more messages transferred from the first application to the second application, wherein causing further includes;

causing the first application to use functionality of the second application, wherein the functionality of the second application is accessed by the first application using the first session and the interface information that characterizes the second session of the second application, thereby causing a request message from the first session to the second session to appear to the second application as coming from the second session.

12. The tangible processor-readable storage device of claim 11, wherein causing further includes:

using a web application to selectively convey the interface information about the second session to at least one of the first and second sessions, including the first session, thereby enabling at least one of the first and second sessions to act as part of the second session, and thereby enabling access to data and functionality of the web application by one or more external applications via the at least one of the first and second sessions.

13. The tangible processor-readable storage device of claim 12, wherein the first application includes a cloud-based enterprise application, and wherein the second application includes the web application that is external to the cloud-based enterprise application.

14. The tangible processor-readable storage device of claim 13, wherein initiating further includes:

sending a first login request and first login credentials from a browser to the first application, the first application initiating the first session in response to the first login request and first login credentials.

15. The tangible processor-readable storage device of claim 11, wherein providing interface information further includes:

sending a second login request and second login credentials from a browser to the second application, the second application initiating the second session in response to the second login request and second login credentials.

16. The tangible processor-readable storage device of claim 11, wherein providing interface information further includes:

delivering, from a browser, information characterizing the second session, wherein the second session has been initiated via the browser via one or more request messages sent from the browser to the second application via the second session.

17. The tangible processor-readable storage device of claim 16, further including:

employing the browser to obtain the interface information, the interface information characterizing the second session, based on data exchanged between the browser and the second session after initiation of the second session.

18. The tangible processor-readable storage device of claim 16, wherein the interface information includes a portion of a session Uniform Resource Locator (URL).

19. The tangible processor-readable storage device of claim 18, wherein delivering further includes:

replicating one or more portions of the session URL to create one or more modified URLs; and

employing the first session to use the one or more modified URLs to interface with the second session, thereby enabling the first session to act as part of the second session to use data or functionality of second application via the second session.

20. An apparatus for facilitating interaction between computing sessions, the apparatus comprising:

one or more processors;

a tangible processor-readable storage device including instructions for;

initiating a first session with a first application;

providing interface information to the first application via the first session, wherein the interface information characterizes a second session with a second application; and

causing the first application to use the second application by employing the interface information that characterizes the second session of the second application in one or more messages transferred from the first application to the second application, wherein causing further includes;

causing the first application to use functionality of the second application, wherein the functionality of the second application is accessed by the first application using the first session and the interface information that characterizes the second session of the second application, thereby causing a request message from the first session to the second session to appear to the second application as coming from the second session.