Patent ID: 8683334

Claim:
A user interactive system (UIS), said system comprising: means for accepting a previously undefined data field and corresponding data by at least a first one of a plurality of UIS applications in response to one or more user commands; and means for storing said data and advertising said data to the plurality of UIS applications; and means for allowing a second one of the plurality of UIS applications to share said accepted data without regard to which application accepted said data and without prior coordination between the first one and the second one of the UIS applications, wherein said data is not collected a second time when said data is already stored; and means for selecting a compliant one of said plurality of UIS applications, which advertises itself as complying with said data, for complying with said data when a third one of said plurality of UIS applications cannot comply with one of said user commands, wherein said means for selecting comprises a list of said user commands to which said plurality of UIS applications advertise themselves as operable to comply; and means for updating said list of said user commands when a UIS application is added to said system.