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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2007
Filed:
Dec. 18, 2002
Applicant:
Christopher Newell Toomey, Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventor:
Christopher Newell Toomey, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
America Online, Inc., Dulles, VA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 9/32 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method is described for optimizing the user-experienced availability and responsiveness of a replicated authentication system via the use of client-side authentication routing logic. Particular techniques are described for maximizing the authentication system availability and additionally either 1) bounding the user-experienced authentication latency, or 2) minimizing the user-experienced authentication latency.