Patent ID: 7380003
Filing Date: 2008-05-27
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of managing a web service provided by a plurality of servers coupled to a data communication network, at least one of said servers executing a first version of the web service, said method comprising: executing a second version of the web service on a first server coupled to the data communication network, wherein the first server also includes the first version of the web service executed thereon; identifying a selected version of the web service based on a request from a user to access the web service via the data communication network; generating a first data stream associated with the user in response to the request, said generated first data stream includes at least one of the following: default data and version data, said default data specifying a default version of the web service associated with the first server, said version data identifying a latest version of the web service accessed by the user, wherein the identifying the selected version of the web service comprises processing the first data stream, said processing the first data stream includes identifying the second version of the web service as the selected version if the version data identifies the second version as the latest version of the web service accessed by the user and the default data specifies the first version as the default version of the web service; and providing the user access to the identified selected version of the web service associated with the first server via a client also coupled to the data communication network.