Patent ID: 7966381

Claim:
In a system comprising at least one client, at least one web server, and a context management (CM) server coupled to the at least one client and the at least one web server, the at least one client and the at least one web server executing a plurality of applications that share a context, the plurality of applications comprising at least one web application that is executed on the web server, the at least one client having at least one browser that enables the at least one client to access the at least one web application, the CM server executing a context management service to manage the context, a method of facilitating a requested change in at least one aspect of the context, the requested change being initiated by an instigator from among the plurality of applications, the method comprising acts of, in response to a change decision being reached as to whether each of the plurality of applications is amenable to the requested change: (a) publishing the change decision directly from the CM server to the plurality of applications; and (b) contacting the at least one browser, directly from the CM server, so that the instigator need not contact the at least one browser, to inform the at least one browser that its corresponding at least one web application has been updated.