Patent ID: 7017049

Claim:
A method on an information processing system for Secured Socket Layer (SSL) management, including at least one load dispatching processor and at least two servers, comprising the steps of: receiving a request for a SSL session to transfer information with a client; determining that if the request from the client has a current valid session id; and determining if a location of the information in the request from the client is not on a server which is used for the current valid session id, and if the location of the information is not on the server which is used for the current valid session id, then transferring the current valid session id from the server that is used for the current valid session id to a server that contains the requested information; transferring the valid session id information that exists between a first server and a client, to a second server that contains the information being requested by the client; waiting for the transference of the session id information between the first server that contains valid session id information and the second server; and completing the waiting for the transference of the session id information between the first server and the second server in less time than it would have taken to build valid session id information between the client and the second server directly.