Patent ID: 7461081
Filing Date: 2008-12-02
Classification: H04L,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An information-processing apparatus including a module which provides one or more clients with a function that needs exclusive access control in which user information stored in the information-processing apparatus is exclusively read or updated by a client through authentication, comprising: a processor; a session management unit configured to interact with the processor and to manage a series of session processing steps and incidental information, wherein said session management unit is configured to a transaction management unit configured to interact with the processor and to manage a series of indivisible transaction processing steps performed by using the function that needs exclusive access control in a state where the transaction processing is continued by extending a second time-out period, which indicates how long transaction information is stored, by an amount based on the function that needs exclusive access control, the transaction information including a transaction ID, the second time-out period, and the session ID, wherein the session management unit is configured to start the management of the session processing steps when an express management start request is received from the client or when an implicit request to start management of the session processing steps other than the express management start request is received.