Pre-Grant Publication Number: 20070192495
Filing Date: February 16, 2006
Inventors: Charl Marais
Assignee: SOFTWIRED AG
Current U.S. Classification: 709, 709/227000
View Prior Art for Claim 00003
The method of Claim 1, comprising the steps of:
the gateway receiving a connection request from a client, the connection request comprising a session identifier;
the gateway checking whether a stored session context exists that comprises the same session identifier;
if such a stored session context exists, the gateway checking a status of the session represented by said stored session context;
if the status indicates that the session is already running, the gateway informing the client that the connection request is rejected.
Patent/Application # US6308281
Description
Prior art describes bridging connections (e.g. wireless and wireline) including a session key (context) and ability to recover from disconnections.
