Patent ID: 7769868

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving a first request from a user corresponding to a first transaction at a dispatcher; creating a secure tunnel and a secure tunnel context between the dispatcher and the user and creating a unique identifier (ID) to uniquely identify a user's current login session; assigning a server to the first request at the dispatcher; adding an entry to a mapping table maintained by the dispatcher indicating the assignment of the server and a previously existing secure tunnel context between the dispatcher and the assigned server; associating the unique ID with the entry in the mapping table; receiving a subsequent request from the user corresponding to a second transaction at the dispatcher, the subsequent request comprising the unique ID; determining if the unique ID exists in the mapping table; using the entry in the mapping table corresponding to the unique ID to identify the assigned server and the secure tunnel context, if the unique ID exists in the mapping table; and sending the subsequent request to the assigned server using the secure tunnel context.