Connection management in a computer networking environment

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9154580-B2
Application number	US-201313753567-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 30, 2013
Priority date	Feb 1, 2012
Publication date	Oct 6, 2015
Grant date	Oct 6, 2015

Abstract

The present subject matter discloses a system and a method for managing a connection between a client and an application within a server in a network. In one implementation, the method includes receiving a connection request from the client. The method further includes associating with a worker thread, a unique identifier (UID) that uniquely identifies the received connection request. Further, the method involves, communicating a message that includes client data associated with the connection request to the application by the worker thread. The method also includes obtaining, by a reverse worker thread, a reply message associated with the UID from the application. The reverse worker thread is configured to communicate the reply message to the client.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method for managing a connection between at least one client and at least one application within a server in a network, the method comprising:
receiving a connection request from the at least one client;
identifying a least loaded worker thread by a main thread, wherein the least loaded worker thread is selected from a plurality of worker threads based on a number of clients associated with each worker thread within the plurality of worker threads;
associating a…

Assignees

• Tata Consultancy Services Ltd

Inventors

• Kumar Himanshu
• Agrawal Nishant Kumar
• Nambiar Manoj Karunakaran

Classifications

• H04L67/01

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/141 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/42 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/146

  Electricity · mapped topic