Patent ID: 7895644

Claim:
A method for single sign-out in a distributed computing environment accessing a computer network comprising: accessing at least one second application server through a first application server; updating a first peer list coupled to the first application server with a second identity of the at least one second application server, wherein the first peer list comprises first information identifying a first one or more application servers (i) that a user has signed in to via the first application server and (ii) from which the user has signed in to the first application server; updating a second peer list coupled to the at least one second application server with a first identity of the first application server, wherein the first identity of the is passed from the first application server to the at least one second application server and wherein the second peer list comprises second information identifying a second one or more application servers (iii) that the user has signed in to via the second application server and (iv) from which the user has signed in to the second application server; and wherein the first and the second peer lists enable tracking of the first and the second one or more application servers that have been accessed in order to sign the user out of the first and the second one or more application servers during a single sign-out operation; detecting a sign-out from any of the first or the at least one second application servers; and signing-out from the first application server and the at least one second application server identified on any of the first peer list and the second peer list.