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 00004
The method of Claim 3, wherein the step of checking the status of the session represented by said stored session context comprises the steps of:
the gateway initiating a lock operation on said session context;
if the lock operation does not succeed, the gateway informing the client that the connection request is rejected;
if the lock operation succeeds, the gateway locking the session context, thus preventing other process threads and optionally also other gateways from accessing the session context.
