System and Method for Creating Global Sessions Across Converged Protocol Applications

A computer program product comprising a computer useable medium having a computer readable program, wherein the computer readable program, when executed on a computing device, causes the computing device to:

• receive, from an external device of an external data network, a session request message using a first communication protocol;
• generate a global session in response to receiving the session request message, the global session having a unique logical name and a unique global token associated with the global session;
• correlate communications with the external device as part of the global session based on the unique logical name of the global session;
• and
• correlate communications with internal devices of an internal data network of the data processing system as part of the global session based on the unique global token of the global session.

A data processing system, comprising:

• a proxy device;
• and
• at least one internal data processing device coupled to the proxy device via an internal data network, wherein the proxy device:
• receives, from an external device of an external data network, a session request message using a first communication protocol;
• and
• generates a global session in response to receiving the session request message, the global session having a unique logical name and a unique global token associated with the global session, and wherein:
• communications with the external device are correlated with the global session based on the unique logical name of the global session, and
• communications with the at least one internal data processing device are correlated with the global session based on the unique global token of the global session.