Patent ID: 8214492

Claim:
A method for adapting a session timeout period of an application comprising one or more parts, each of the one or more parts of the application having a corresponding predetermined session timeout period for receiving an input from a user connected to one of the one or more parts of the application, comprising the steps of: determining via the computer the rate of timed out sessions for the said one of the one or more parts of the application after the number of connections to said one of the one or more parts has reached a predetermined level to produce a determined rate of timed out sessions, wherein determining the rate of timed out sessions includes counting a number of sessions for which a time period from display of a specific part of the application to a user to the user requesting display of a next part of the application to the user exceeds the predetermined session timeout period; comparing via the computer the determined rate of timed out sessions of said one of the one of more parts of the application with a predetermined threshold value of the rate of timed out sessions; and adapting via the computer the predetermined session timeout period of said one of the one or more parts of the application based on the comparison to give rise to an adapted session timeout period, wherein the step of adapting the predetermined session timeout period comprises respectively increasing or reducing the predetermined session timeout period by respectively adding or removing a predetermined period of time to or from the predetermined session timeout period if the determined rate of timed out sessions is respectively above or below the predetermined threshold value and thereby increasing or decreasing the time period for users to request display of the next part of the application after display of the specific part of the application.