Patent ID: 8364756

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for re-using a connection between a client computing device and a server system, comprising: receiving at a server system a request from a client computing device to initiate a connection between the client computing device and the server system; after the connection is formed between the client computing device and the server system, receiving at the server system over the connection, a request from the client computing device for first content from a first domain hosted by the server system; sending information from the server system to the client computing device over the connection that specifies one or more additional domains hosted by the server system and acceptable to the server system for connection sharing; receiving at the server system over the connection, from the client computing device, a request for second content from a second domain that is hosted by the server system and that was specified in the information sent from the server system to the client computing device; and sending the second content to the client computing device over the connection in response to receiving the request for second content.