Patent ID: 8392562
Filing Date: 2013-03-05
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for providing a cookie identifying a session of a user that was redirected responsive to a service exceeding a response time limit, the method comprising: (a) establishing, by a first packet processing engine executing on a first core of an intermediary device comprising a plurality of packet processing engines executing on a corresponding core of a plurality of cores, a policy for a virtual server managing a service of a server, the policy identifying a predetermined threshold of an amount of delay in time for a response time of the service upon which a client's request to access the service is deferred; (b) generating, by the first packet processing engine, a first identifier for the association of the policy to the virtual server based on a name of one of the virtual server or the service; (c) receiving, by a second packet processing engine of the plurality of packet processing engines, a request from a client to access the service; (d) determining, by the second packet processing engine, that the service has exceeded the predetermined threshold of the policy; (e) generating, by the second packet processing engine responsive to the determination, a second identifier for the policy based on a name of the policy; and (f) transmitting, by the second packet processing engine, a communication to the client to display an amount of time left until a response to the request from the service is available, the communication comprising a cookie identifying the first identifier and the second identifier, wherein the first identifier is different from the second identifier; and (g) receiving, by one of the plurality of packet processing engines, the request from the client with the cookie.