Patent ID: 7664841

Claim:
A method of selective activation of server applications on a server computer in a computer network system, said computer network system including a server computer, a plurality of client computers, a set of server applications loaded on the server computer, and a given protocol stack for managing activation of the server applications, the method comprising the steps of: (a) a system administrator defining a plurality of states for the network system; (b) said system administrator specifying conditions to determine whether or not each of the server applications can be activated in each of said states; (c) said given protocol stack managing activation of the server applications in accordance with said specified conditions; (d) assigning different priorities to the server applications; (e) the server computer receiving messages from the client computers; and (f) the protocol stack receiving the messages and determining, for each of the messages received by the server computer, whether to pass said each message to one of the server applications on the server computer based on the priority assigned to said one of the server applications.