Dynamic sessional redirection and proxy

Abstract

In dynamic sessional redirection a server receives a request originating from a client device from a proxy server and analyzed for context information. Proxy rerouting rules are determined from the context information and sent to the proxy server. The server then sends a response to the first request to the proxy server addressed to the client device. A proxy may include a processor coupled to a memory having a dynamically reconfigurable rules table embodied therein having rerouting rules for data traffic between a client and a server. An application programming interface (API) is configured to dynamically change one or more rerouting rules in the reconfigurable rules table. The proxy is configured to reroute data traffic between client and server according to the rerouting rules.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method for dynamic sessional redirection, comprising:
 a) receiving a first request from a proxy server, wherein in the first request originated from a client device;   b) analyzing the first request for context information;   c) determining proxy rerouting rules from the context information;   d) sending proxy rerouting rules to the proxy server;   e) sending a response to the first request to the proxy server addressed to the client device.   
     
     
         2 . The method of  claim 1  wherein the response to the first request further comprises an instruction to the client device to send metadata with a second request and for subsequent communications between the client and proxy server. 
     
     
         3 . The method from  claim 1  wherein the rerouting rules are sent to the proxy server while the proxy server is rerouting a subsequent communication from the client device and wherein the proxy server waits until the subsequent communication is rerouted before updating or adding the rerouting rules to a set of rerouting rules used by the proxy server during operation. 
     
     
         4 . A proxy, comprising:
 a processor;   memory coupled to the processor having a dynamically reconfigurable rules table embodied therein, the dynamically reconfigurable rules table having rerouting rules for data traffic between a client and a server; and   an application programming interface (API) configured to dynamically change one or more rerouting rules in the reconfigurable rules table;   wherein the proxy is configured to reroute data traffic between a client and a server according to the rerouting rules in the dynamically reconfigurable rules table.   
     
     
         5 . The proxy of  claim 4 , further comprising an inferencing engine configured to analyze a request from the client and infer appropriate rerouting rules from analyzing the request. 
     
     
         6 . The proxy of  claim 5 , wherein the API is configured to dynamically change one or more rules in the reconfigurable rules table with one or more corresponding appropriate rerouting rules inferred from analyzing the request by the inferencing engine. 
     
     
         7 . The proxy of  claim 5  wherein the rerouting rules include one or more session-dependent rules. 
     
     
         8 . The proxy of  claim 5  wherein the rerouting rules include one or more application-dependent rules.