Patent ID: 8402530

Claim:
At a computer system including a processor and a memory, in a computer networking environment including a plurality of computing systems, a computer-implemented method for redistributing authentication requests among a plurality of authentication servers, the method comprising: instantiating a secure channel management service configured to manage one or more secure channel connections, wherein the secure channel management service is configured to receive state inputs from one or more currently deployed authentication proxy servers, the authentication proxy servers being configured to queue authentication requests for transmission to one or more authentication servers; receiving an indication of authentication demand from each of a plurality of the authentication proxy servers, the indication of authentication demand that is received from each of the plurality of authentication servers including one or more of the following state inputs: an authentication request quantity, an amount of processing capacity, an amount of current network usage, a quantity of channels currently open, a user defined configuration limit for a corresponding proxy server or an affinity mapping; determining that, based on the received indication of authentication demand comprising the state input, one or more of the secure channels are to be remapped to a different authentication proxy server; and remapping the determined one or more secure channels to distribute future authentication requests among the plurality of authentication proxy servers according to the determination.