Patent attributes
Systems, methods, and computer program products for the dynamic management of the capacity of long-lived connections to a server are provided. A request to change a first connection to a server is received. The server has a total capacity to process multiple concurrent requests from one or more clients over respective connections, and each connection is configured with a capacity for communicating concurrent client requests. One or more active connections to the server and corresponding current capacities are determined. A new capacity for one or more connections of the first connection and the active connections to the server is determined based on the request, the total capacity and the current capacities of the one or more active connections.