Patent ID: 8874791

Claim:
A method for reconnecting a client to a host service, the method comprising: (a) providing a first connection between a client computing device and a first protocol service executing on a second computing device, and a second connection between the first protocol service and a host service executing on a third computing device; (b) detecting, by the first protocol service, a disruption in the first connection between the client computing device and the first protocol service; (c) re-establishing, by the client, the first connection between the client and the first protocol service while maintaining the second connection between the first protocol service and the host service; (d) receiving at the first protocol service a ticket associated with the client and associated with the first connection between the client computing device and the first protocol service; (e) validating, by the first protocol service, the ticket responsive to retrieving encrypted authentication credentials associated with the first connection between the client computing device and the first protocol service; and (f) linking, by the first protocol service after the ticket is validated, the re-established first connection to the maintained second connection.