Patent ID: 8495170

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of managing service requests, the method comprising: transmitting, with one or more configured computing devices, a first client service request to a communication processing component; receiving, with the one or more configured computing devices, a service response provided in response to the first client service request, the service response including at least an identifier and a connection lease that indicates a duration in which subsequent client service requests may bypass the communication processing component and be sent directly to a server device associated with the identifier, the indicated duration being at least one of a number of client service requests, an amount of data, or a time duration; at a time after the receiving of the service response, determining, with the one or more configured computing devices and based at least in part on the indicated duration of the connection lease included in the received service response, whether the connection lease has expired; and if it is determined that the connection lease has not expired, transmitting, with the one or more configured computing devices, one or more subsequent client service requests directly to the server device associated with the identifier.