International Business Machines Corporation

Hirosi Maruyama

Robert B Carroll

Mark Fisk

Hatem Ghafir

Techniques for use in establishing a secure exchange of information between an end user and a server in a distributed network environment are provided in accordance with a context manager. The context manager is manageable within a vault process and maintains state information between successive user browser sessions with multiple application domains containing various applications. The context manager accesses data stored on a global level that spans applications and is available to multiple vault applications in different domains. The context manager also accesses data stored on an application level and common to a given application domain for a given sequence of operations within the vault application. The context manager accesses data stored on an instance level for a given sequence of operations within a given application domain. Finally, the context manager opens the global level data, application level data, and instance level data for non-null values where a scoping level is not identified when performing a retrieval operation.

Vault controller context manager and methods of operation for securely maintaining state information between successive browser connections in an electronic business system

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Hirosi Maruyama