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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 2006
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2000
Sean Nolan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Sean Nolan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Drugstore.com, Bellevue, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatuses for electronic session management are disclosed. In one embodiment, a user is connected to a server when initiating a session. Until a predetermined period of time passes without any activity from the user, the user is connected to the same server even if the initial connection with the server is broken. During that time, information related to the user is stored in volatile memory of the server. In one embodiment, a one or more searches are performed and the results of the searches are stored on the servers. When a user performs one of the searches the results are retrieved without repeating the searches. Thus, commonly performed searches can be provided in a more efficient manner as compared to performing the searches multiple times.