Patent ID: 6820125
Filing Date: 2004-11-16
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
In a client-server environment having a server group including one or more participating servers and one or more controller servers, where each participating server can communicate with at least one controller server, a method for coordinating actions among the servers in the server group comprising:communicating between a client and at least one of the servers in the server group using a protocol that has limited or no defined procedures for passing state information between the client and the servers; maintaining client state information; transmitting a request for an action from the client to a first server of the server group; and communicating among a plurality of servers, wherein said plurality of servers includes said first server and at least one other server, said at least one other server including at least one controller server, and wherein said communicating procedure includes said at least one controller server coordinating actions of at least one of the plurality of servers in response to the request.