Patent 9166862 was granted and assigned to Amazon on October, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The disclosure describes embodiments of a distributed caching system that are configured to store handshake data between client devices and servers, enabling handshake transaction to be resumed in case of interruption. Client devices can resume the handshake transaction even if assigned to new servers as the new servers can obtain the handshake data identifiers from the distributed caching system.