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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 13, 2003
Hamid Bacha, Great Falls, VA (US);
Robert Burns, Pembroke Pines, FL (US);
Robert B. Carroll, Mt. Kisco, NY (US);
Mark Fisk, North Potomac, MD (US);
Hamid Bacha, Great Falls, VA (US);
Robert Burns, Pembroke Pines, FL (US);
Robert B. Carroll, Mt. Kisco, NY (US);
Mark Fisk, North Potomac, MD (US);
International Business Machines Corp., Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A vault controller manages resources in a secure environment or vault dedicated to an authorized user(s) for conducting electronic business in a distributed information system, e.g., the Internet. The controller includes a web server and a supervisor in a shared object library which runs as part of an HTTP daemon. The supervisor runs as a multi-threaded process and includes multiple service supervisor (SS) threads; a communication supervisor (CS) thread; a request supervisor (RS) thread; state and data tables and a vault daemon to support launching secure processes mapped to users through digital certificates included in user requests to the controller.