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Primary Examiner—Dieu-Minh Le
(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, PC; Jason L. Burgess
(57) ABSTRACT
Various embodiments of a system and method for processing a request in a distributed software application are disclosed. In response to a client request, one or more server computers may modify a plurality of different portions of state information. The system may operate to ensure that the portions of state information are all modified atomically. The system may also operate to provide transparent connection failover functionality for the network connection between the client computer and the one or more server computers.
21 Claims, 10 Drawing Sheets
