Patent ID: 8055761
Filing Date: 2011-11-08
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating over a network between a client information handling system (IHS) and a server IHS, the method comprising: monitoring the network, by a polling application in the client IHS, to determine if the client IHS currently exhibits a network connected status or a network disconnected status; testing, by an interceptor application in the client IHS that communicates with the polling application, to determine if a request for a network task involves a user-interactive network task or a non-user-interactive network task, thus designating requests for user-interactive network tasks and requests for non-user-interactive network tasks, the request for a network task being directed by the client IHS to the server IHS; transmitting, by the interceptor application, requests for user-interactive network tasks and non-user-interactive networks tasks over the network to the server IHS in response to the polling application determining that the client IHS currently exhibits the network connected status, the interceptor application storing requests for non-user-interactive network tasks in the data store in response to the polling application determining that the client IHS currently exhibits the network disconnected status and transmitting, by the interceptor application, a stored request for a non-user-interactive network task in the data store to the server IHS when the polling application determines restoration of a network connection upon the network status transitioning from the network disconnected status to the network connected status.