Method and system for managing data-sharing sessions

A computer system for managing data sharing sessions, comprising:

• a processor;
• storage;
• and
• a server executed by said processor and managing a data-sharing session in storage, said server having an interface receiving registration requests from software systems, said server being configured to register each of said software systems in said data-sharing session, said server maintaining a request for a set of requested data for a first of said software systems in said data-sharing session and resolving said set of said requested data to a set of shared data items received from other of said software systems in said data-sharing session based on semantic descriptions of said set of said requested data and said shared data items, said server notifying said first software system whenever updates to values of said shared data items resolving to said set of said requested data are available, said server destroying said data-sharing session if there is one of an absence of activity and an absence of one of said software systems having a particular characteristic in said data-sharing session.

A method for managing data sharing sessions, comprising:

• managing a plurality of data-sharing sessions with a computer system, each said data-sharing session having a set of software systems participating therein;
• maintaining requests, by said computer system, for said software systems for sets of requested data;
• storing, by said computer system, values for at least one shared data item received from said software systems in said data-sharing session;
• resolving, by said computer system, said shared data items to at least one of said sets of said requested data using semantic descriptions provided for said shared data items and said requested data;
• notifying, by said computer system, said software systems requesting said at least one set of said requested data of available updates to said values of said shared data items resolving to said at least one set of said requested data;
• and
• destroying, by said computer system, one of said data-sharing sessions based on one of an absence of activity in said one data-sharing session, an absence of one of said software systems having a particular characteristic in said one data-sharing session, and a static value associated with said one data-sharing session.