Appeal No. 2006-2228
Application No. 10/231,678
The disclosed invention pertains to a method, apparatus, and program
product for providing persistent data during a user session on a networked
computer system. A global data cache is divided into three sections: trusted,
protected, and unprotected. An authorization mechanism stores and retrieves
authorization data from the trusted section of the global data store. A common
session manager stores and retrieves data from the protected and unprotected
sections of the global data cache. Using the authorization mechanism, software
applications may verify that a user is authorized without prompting the user for
authorization information. Using the common session manager, software
applications may store and retrieve data to and from the global data store,
allowing the sharing of data during a user session. After the user session
terminates, the data in the global data cache corresponding to the user session is
invalidated.
Representative claim 35 is reproduced as follows:
35. A program product comprising:
(A) a common session manager that stores data in the global data
cache during a user session, and that invalidates the data in the global data
cache after the user session is terminated, the global data cache comprising:
(A1) a trusted section that includes authorization information
for a user session;
(A2) a protected section that includes information that may be
accessed only if the user is authorized to access the information stored in
the protected section; and
(A3) an unprotected section that includes information that may
be accessed by any user that has a valid session identifier;
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