Overview#

State is the particular condition that an entity is in at a specific time.

State of a digital logic circuit or computer program is a technical term for all the stored information, at a given instant in time, to which the circuit or application has access.

The output of a digital circuit or computer application at any time is completely determined by its current inputs and its State or data.

State can refer to the position within a life cycle

A change in State may be referred to as an Event

Systems State #

Generally, systems are considered to be one of the following:

• Stateful systems or protocols processing of the current data.
• Stateless systems or protocols

OAuth state parameter#

In OAuth 2.0 there is an OAuth state parameter

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Basically Available Soft state Eventual consistency
• BeyondCorp
• Complex Event Processing
• Consensus
• Consistency
• Cookie
• DIAMETER
• Data State
• Distributed Consensus
• Etag
• Ethereum
• Event
• Event sourcing
• Eventual consistency
• Functional Programming
• HTTP
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP 1.1) Conditional Requests
• Idempotent
• Identified
• Initialization Vector
• Life cycle
• Load Balancing
• Logging Out
• Logout Mechanism
• Master-slave
• Medicaid
• Multi-master replication
• OAuth 2.0 JWT Secured Authorization Request
• OpenID Connect Back-Channel Logout
• OpenID Connect Federation Async
• Policy Based Management System
• Pseudonymity
• Replication
• Representational State Transfer
• Same Origin Policy
• Serverless
• Service Worker
• Session
• Session Management
• Stateful
• Stateless
• TLS Session Resumption
• Trust Inferer
• Web Blog_blogentry_040817_1
• Web Services Resource Framework