Patent ID: 9497270
Filing Date: 2016-11-15
CPC Classification: H04L

Claim Text:
1. A method implemented in a non-transitory machine-readable storage medium and processed by a machine configured to perform the method, comprising: maintaining, at the machine, a last-recorded activity time for a session reflecting an up-to-date time for a most recent activity occurring in the session between a principal and second principals, wherein maintaining further includes obtaining the most recent activity from a domain identified in a token with the principal and the second principals configured for reporting session activity to that domain; and communicating, at the machine, the last-recorded activity time to a requesting principal before the requesting principal times out of the session due to that requesting principal's inactivity for a predefined amount of time within the session and the predefined amount of time for the inactivity is provided from the requesting principal as a dynamic query that is initiated from the requesting principal for the last-recorded activity time before that requesting principal times out of the session, and wherein updating, by the requesting principal, a principal maintained last activity time maintained by the requesting principal with the last-recorded activity time, wherein each principal updates that principal's individually maintained last activity time with the last-recorded activity time communicated and wherein none of the principals is permitted to time out of the session when at least one of the principals has a particular maintained last activity time that has not exceeded the predefined amount of time of inactivity.