Patent ID: 7523196
Filing Date: 2009-04-21
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method implemented in a network for monitoring client sessions, comprising: establishing client sessions within an application server instance, wherein each of the client sessions is established by a respective worker node in a plurality of worker nodes, each worker node providing a runtime environment for a respective Java virtual machine (“JVM”) of a plurality of JVMs in the application server instance; storing by each of the plurality of JVMs session context data for a respective one of the client sessions during the client sessions; operating each of the plurality of JVMs to service a respective client request received from a client associated with one of the client sessions; and each of the plurality of JVMs reporting status information about one of the client sessions into a shared memory external to the plurality of JVMs, the reporting to monitor each of the client sessions during operation of the JVMs.