Patent ID: 8234699

Claim:
A method of identifying the originator of a message transmitted between a client and a server system, said method comprising the steps of: modifying a message to be transmitted during a session between a client and a server system to include a session identification flag and a session identifier corresponding to an originator of the session on the server system and allowing the originator of the session to be uniquely identified among originators of sessions on the server system; transmitting the message between the client and the server system; checking the transmitted message for the session identification flag; determining, in response to matching the session identification flag with a predefined value, that a valid session identifier has been included as a new portion of the transmitted message during the modification, the new portion available for extraction at a pre-established location within the transmitted message; and extracting the session identifier of the transmitted message at the pre-established location to determine the originator of the message, wherein if the appended session identifier in the transmitted message is not valid, processing the transmitted communication packet according to one or more predetermined rules for transmitted packets without valid session identifiers.