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Server system with scalable session timeout mechanism

  • US 6,446,225 B1
  • Filed: 04/23/1998
  • Issued: 09/03/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/23/1998
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A network server system for a computer network system to handle requests from one or more clients, the network server system comprising:

  • a processing unit;

    a memory subsystem;

    a session manager stored in the memory subsystem and executable on the processing unit to manage client-server sessions, the session manager grouping the sessions into timeout buckets according to timeout periods associated with the sessions; and

    wherein the sessions have a default session timeout period expressed as whole units, and the session manager establishes a predetermined number of timeout buckets that is at least one greater than the default session timeout period.

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