Patent ID: 8150985

Claim:
An application execution status managing method that manages an execution status of an application provided in a computer system that includes a first computer, a second computer connected to the first computer through a network, and a cache management device connected to the first computer and the second computer, the application execution status managing method comprising: receiving, by the cache management device, a request relating to the application from the second computer; judging, by the cache management device, whether a response corresponding to the request is stored in a cache data area of the cache management device; if the response is stored in the cache data area, sending, by the cache management device, the response to the second computer; if the response is not stored in the cache data area, sending, by the cache management device, the request to the first computer; upon receiving the request by the first computer, inserting, by the first computer, a unique identifier and a program code, which instructs the second computer to execute a first inspection to determine whether a cookie including the unique identifier as a cookie name exists in a cookie data area of the second computer when the second computer receives the response corresponding to the request and to delete the cookie having the unique identifier as the cookie name after the first inspection, into a web page that is included in the response corresponding to the request received from the cache management device; inserting, by the first computer, an instruction, which sets the cookie having the unique identifier as the cookie name in the second computer, into a header of the response corresponding to the request received from the cache management device; sending, by the first computer, the web page and the response including the header to the second computer via the cache management device; and storing, by the cache management device, the response received from the first computer, except for the instruction inserted into the header, in the cache data area, wherein the response sent to the second computer enables the second computer to execute the instruction inserted into the header of the response before the program code.