US Patent 7308502 Method and architecture to provide client session failover

In an embodiment, a method to provide client session failover, includes using a security assertion to re-establish a session with a client to permit the client to failover to a failover server. In another embodiment, an apparatus to provide client session failover, includes: a client; a first server configured to provide a security assertion to the client; and a failover server configured to re-establish a session with a client based upon the security assertion.