Patent ID: 8065390

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a network device, a request to initiate a session between the network device and a client device; obtaining, by the network device and in response to receiving the request, a session identifier (ID), where the session ID uniquely identifies the session to the network device; associating, by the network device, the session ID with a hyper-text markup language (HTML) page, where the HTML page enables the client device to manage the network device, and where associating the session ID with the HTML page causes the session ID to be returned to the network device with another request sent by the client device during the session; transmitting, by the network device, the HTML page to the client device; receiving, by the network device and during the session, the other request and at least one additional request from the client device; and determining, by the network device, the other request to be associated with the session and the additional request not to be associated with the session based on the session ID.