General Electric Company
Cross-domain context sharing engine

Abstract:

Systems and techniques for provisioning context sharing artifacts between applications are presented. For example, as compared to conventional context sharing methods for sharing context information between two applications, the present innovations provide for eliminating the need for a Clinical Context Object Workgroup (CCOW) context manager. Modern applications are typically written in "zero-footprint" web technologies (pure HTML/JS/CSS) to avoid the need to install anything on users' computers. The only thing users have to have in order to access the application is a modern web browser. To synchronize context between two such web applications, a communication channel is required; but for security reasons the browser runs all applications in "sandboxed" mode which prevents the applications from communicating directly with the other browser applications or anything else on the local computer.