Patent ID: 7984157

Claim:
A method for re-connecting a client to a host service, the method comprising: establishing, by a client computing device, a communication session between the client computing device and a first protocol service over a first connection; establishing, by the first protocol service, a second communication session between the first protocol service and a host service over a second connection; generating, by a ticket authority, a first reconnection ticket and a second reconnection ticket; transmitting, by the ticket authority, the first reconnection ticket and the second reconnection ticket to the first protocol service; detecting, by the first protocol service, a disruption in one of the first connection and the second connection; transmitting, by the first protocol service, the first reconnection ticket and the second reconnection ticket to the ticket authority; validating, by the ticket authority, the first reconnection ticket; re-establishing, by the first protocol service, the disrupted connection responsive to the validated first reconnection ticket while maintaining the other one of the first connection and the second connection; validating, by the ticket authority, the second reconnection ticket; and linking, by the first protocol service, the re-established connection to the maintained connection responsive to the validated second reconnection ticket.