Directory access method

• Main Authors: Kikuchi, Satoshi, Hirashima, Yoko, Matsuoka, Yusuke, Odaki, Michiyasu, Ishikawa, Kazuo
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 23.04.2002

1. Field of the Invention A network system includes a directory server having a database for storing directory information, and at least one client connected to the directory server through a network. The client issues statements for defining a transaction. The directory server includes a non-transaction processing unit for processing each of access requests from the client as a different transaction, a transaction processing unit for processing a sequence of access requests from the client as a single transaction, a phase management table for storing a connected client and a processing phase for an access request, and a phase management unit for determining whether an access request from a connected client is defined as a transaction, storing a processing phase in the phase management table, and passing the access request from the client to the non-transaction processing unit or to the transaction processing unit based on the stored processing phase.