Managing multiple sessions for a user of a portal

• US 7,600,027 B2
• Filed: 09/16/2004
• Issued: 10/06/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/16/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Yan, Shunguo
• Primary Examiner(s): Najjar; Saleh
• Assistant Examiner(s): Nguyen; Thuong (Tina) T
• Application Number:
  US10/942,430
• Publication Number:
  US 20060059125A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,846 Days
• Field of Search: 709/227, 709/219, 709/203, 707/3, 707/10
• US Class Current: 709/227
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/142 Managing session states for stateless protocols; Signalling session states; State transitions; Keeping-state mechanisms
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/567 Integrating service provisioning from a plurality of service providers
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching

Abstract

Methods for managing multiple sessions for a user on a portal are disclosed. More particularly, hardware and/or software for managing multiple user sessions with backend applications of a portal are disclosed. Embodiments include a portal having a client interaction module for interacting with a user and a portlet application module for interacting with a backend application on an application server. A further embodiment provides a session manager for retrieving application session data from an application session data cache and inserting it into a user request, and for removing application session data from a content transmission from a backend application. In some embodiments, a session data cache for storing portal session data and application session data is provided. The session data cache may store application session data for each session established by a user with backend applications.

Claims

1. A method for managing sessions, the method comprising:

establishing by a portal server a portal session with a user and saving a portal session identifier in a session information cache, the portal session being associated with a portal provided by the portal server;

receiving by the portal server a request from a user for contents of a backend application of a portal;

inserting by the portal server application session data for the backend application into the user request by querying the session information cache for application session data related to a session between the backend application and the user, the session information cache comprising session information for both the portal session and a plurality of sessions between backend applications and users;

forwarding by the portal server the user request with the inserted application session data to an application server associated with the backend application;

receiving by the portal server from the application server a content transmission having both content requested by the user and application session data from the backend application, the application session information comprising a session identifier;

consolidating by the portal server the received application session data into the session information cache;

removing by the portal server the user'"'"'s application session data from the content transmission; and

forwarding by the portal server the content transmission to the user.