Patents by Inventor Christopher A. S. Gage

Christopher A. S. Gage has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • URL-based sticky routing tokens using a server-side cookie jar
    Patent number: 8543644
    Abstract: A method, system and program product are presented for enabling a session, as defined by a series of related transactions to perform a unit of work, to be created between a client and a particular server where the server is managed by a dispatcher. Modifications to the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) are used to create a method of transferring information form the client to the server. The server implements a server-side storage area (cookie jar) to temporarily store information about the client and the session so that the client is routed to the same server for successive messages in the same session and no reliance is made upon an ability by the client to store or return cookies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher A. S. Gage, John Hind, Marcia L. Peters
  • URL-BASED STICKY ROUTING TOKENS USING A SERVER-SIDE COOKIE JAR
    Publication number: 20130007225
    Abstract: A method, system and program product are presented for enabling a session, as defined by a series of related transactions to perform a unit of work, to be created between a client and a particular server where the server is managed by a dispatcher. Modifications to the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) are used to create a method of transferring information form the client to the server. The server implements a server-side storage area (cookie jar) to temporarily store information about the client and the session so that the client is routed to the same server for successive messages in the same session and no reliance is made upon an ability by the client to store or return cookies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher A.S. Gage, John R. Hind, Marcia L. Peters
  • URL-based sticky routing tokens using a server-side cookie jar
    Patent number: 8239445
    Abstract: A method, system and program product are presented for enabling a session, as defined by a series of related transactions to perform a unit of work, to be created between a client and a particular server where the server is managed by a dispatcher. Modifications to the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) are used to create a method of transferring information form the client to the server. The server implements a server-side storage area (cookie jar) to temporarily store information about the client and the session so that the client is routed to the same server for successive messages in the same session and no reliance is made upon an ability by the client to store or return cookies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Christopher A. S. Gage, John R. Hind, Marcia L. Peters
  • Load balancer performance using affinity modification
    Publication number: 20040260745
    Abstract: A method, system, and computer program for managing network connectivity between a host and a server cluster. The invention helps reduce network traffic bottlenecks at the server cluster by instructing the host to modify its network mapping such that messages sent by the host to the server cluster reach a selected server cluster member without passing through a dispatching node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2003
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: Christopher A. S. Gage, Diane P. Pozefsky, Soumitra Sarkar