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Jonathan Francis Savage

Christopher Wayne Howser

Yuliang Zheng

Edward R Kelly

Nathan Thangavadivel Suri

Michael Thomas McCormick

Michael Charles Dayton

Robert Henry Hughes

Michael Alan Krumpus

Mathew Loesch

A computing device includes: a processing unit; and memory encoding instructions that, when executed by the processing unit, cause the processing unit to: receive a request from a client computing device; establish a first secured connection to the client computing device; select a server computing device from a plurality of server computing devices to service the request from the client computing device, selection being made based, at least in part, upon load balancing considerations; establish a second secured connection to the server computing device, the second secured connection being separate from the first secured connection; and allow the client computing device to securely communicate with the server computing device through the first and second secured connections.

Creating secure connections between distributed computing devices

A system such as in a networked computer system comprising a user, an application server, a gatekeeper server and an authentication server. Communication within the system is managed by the gatekeeper server, wherein the user communicates with the authentication server and the application server through the gatekeeper server. Once the user has been initially authenticated by the authentication server, the user may request application services from a plurality of application servers within the networked computer system without having to be re-authenticated.

Authentication system for networked computer applications

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Jonathan Francis Savage