Enhanced thread handling in security handshaking

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9344451-B2
Application number	US-201414347050-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 20, 2014
Priority date	Feb 20, 2013
Publication date	May 17, 2016
Grant date	May 17, 2016

Abstract

Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and software for handling threaded processes in security handshaking between end users and content delivery nodes are presented. In one example, a method of operating a content delivery node includes identifying a secure layer connection request within an application thread, and initiating a new thread for a security handshake process based on the secure layer connection request. The method further includes, in response to completing the security handshake process, returning to the application thread.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of operating a content delivery node that caches content for delivery to end user devices, the method comprising:
during execution of an application thread responsive to content request activity of at least an end user device, identifying a secure layer connection request within the application thread;
responsive to the secure layer connection request, initiating a security handshake process as a handshake thread selected from among a pool of idle…

Assignees

• Fastly Inc

Inventors

• Bergman Artur
• Kasindorf Alan
• Mulhuijzen Rogier

Classifications

• H04L63/168 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/166

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L63/205

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06F9/4843 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L67/5682

  Electricity · mapped topic