Patent ID: 8843876

Claim:
A method for keeping a web session alive in a web application, which comprises the steps of: providing a software tool that offers at least one software-coded mechanism to keep the web session alive, the software tool having a library containing a first part for managing a specific portion of JAVASCRIPT code to be added to a web page of the web application and a second part for managing responses to requests from a web server that is deriving from a portion of the code added to the web page, the second part being configured as a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) handler; at an engineering level during development of a page of the web application, with a data processing unit executing software with a logical unit, using the library to assign a mechanism selected by a user of the software tool to keep the web session alive to the page of the web application, wherein an assignment adds a respective specific portion of JAVASCRIPT code to the web page of the web application; and at runtime of the web application, an interaction between the first part and the second part of the library creating a postback running undercover and keeping a web session alive according to parameters determined by the mechanism selected by the user out of the library without performing any additional action of the user on the respective web page.