Patent 7594230 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on September, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
An improved web server design includes a kernel-based listener service that is configured by a user-mode based administrative process. When a web request is received by the listener service it is placed in a queue associated with an application pool having one or more user-mode web applications configured to process received web requests. The web applications are selectively started and stopped by the administrative process.