Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.P.

Daniel Scott Jorgenson

Ahmed Khattab

Kathleen M Cox

Kenneth Joseph Schulz

Joseph Gerard Moffat

Nirmaladevi Kulandaivelu

Christopher John Hoffman

Thomas M Graefe

Richard Paul Kane

Fabrizio Mancuso

A system comprises a business entitlement object, a primary account associated with a first user, wherein the primary account is linked to the business entitlement object, a secondary user condition defined by the first user, and a first secondary account, wherein a second user links the first secondary account to the business entitlement object according to the secondary user condition.

System and method for linking user accounts to business entitlement objects

The present invention provides a system and method for distributing load among redundant, independent, stateful web server sites that overcome the limitations of prior art solutions. This is accomplished by constructing the server computer to respond to an initial connection request from a client computer with the name of a server computer site, pool or group selected based on various criteria. The server computer site, pool and group names are maintained in DNS nameservers with load balancing and failover capabilities. As a result, the single-point-of-failure and performance issues introduced by prior art web proxy servers are eliminated. In addition, since the session state information is only maintained on the selected server computer site, the need to synchronize web proxy server state with server computer state is eliminated.

System and method for distributing load among redundant independent stateful world wide web server sites

A system and method are provided for maintaining consistent server-side state across a pool of collaborating servers with independent state repositories. When a client performs an event on a collaborating server which affects such state on the server, it publishes notification of the event into a queue maintained in client-side state which is shared by all of the collaborating servers in the pool. As the client makes requests to servers within the pool, the queue is thus included in each request. When a collaborating server needs to access its server-side state in question, it first discerns events new to it from the queue and replicates their effects into such server-side state. As a result, the effects of events upon server-side state are replicated asynchronously across the servers in the pool, as the client navigates among them.

System and method for maintaining consistent independent server-side state among collaborating servers

A system and method are provided for performing file transfers using an HTTP- or HTTPS-based Supplier Transport Gateway to connect Customer and Supplier Repositories located behind their respective firewalls. In some embodiments, the Transport Gateway is placed outside the Supplier firewall, and a Supplier Transport Proxy inside the firewall connects the Transport Gateway to the internal Supplier Repositories. In other embodiments, the Transport Gateway and Transport Proxy are reversed, the Proxy residing outside the Supplier firewall and relaying Customer HTTP/HTTPS traffic to the Transport Gateway inside the firewall, which then connects to the internal Supplier Repositories. In either case, the HTTP- or HTTPS-based Customer Repository connects through a Customer Proxy to the Supplier's Transport Gateway to request file upload/download operations. In turn, the Transport Gateway implements the Supplier's request validation policy, and Supplier Repository routing rules that abstract the Supplier Repository topology to the Customer. The Transport Gateway then performs a corresponding upload/download operation against the selected Supplier Repository using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, or a similar protocol.

Secure routable file upload/download across the internet

A system and method are provided for replicating state among collaborating World Wide Web servers connected to a computer network. When a collaborating Web server needs to access state information, the collaborating Web server first determines whether the state information has been modified since the last time the collaborating Web server accessed the state information. If the state information has been modified, the collaborating Web server requests a copy of the state information from the last collaborating Web server to modify the state information. As a result, state information is only replicated among collaborating Web servers on an as-needed basis, greatly reducing the amount of data that needs to be replicated among collaborating Web servers.

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Daniel Scott Jorgenson