Patent ID: 7831616
Filing Date: 2010-11-09
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A database authentication and session management system that manages authorization and session for a user to access and search a plurality of databases, including: at least one processor; a memory embedded with computer instructions that are executed by the at least one processor, the executed computer instructions perform steps comprising: bundling authentication and functional session context information for each of the plurality of databases in response to a search request, wherein the bundled packaged authentication and functional session context information includes log-in information and session information, the bundled authentication and functional session context information is unique to a user session and each database returning search results corresponding to the search request, and is associated with any full-record URLs targeted to each database; transferring the bundled authentication and functional session context information of each of the plurality of databases, along with a target URL associated with the database, to a session manager for management of a full-record native database session for each of the plurality of databases associated with the target URL; reconstructing and managing the user session for each of the plurality of databases associated with the corresponding target URL within the session manager, using the authentication and functional session context information that enables full-record access to each of the plurality of databases associated with the corresponding target URL without re-authenticating or backtracking within a session dialog.