Abstract
A method for operating a session management process over an SSE transport, where the process maintains an in-memory map of session identifiers to open HTTP response streams, receives personalization payloads from an upstream enrichment pipeline, and writes those payloads as formatted SSE event frames to all registered EventSource connections matching the target session identifier. The process stores HTTP response stream references rather than WebSocket handles, delivers payloads by writing SSE-formatted text to each open stream, and relies on HTTP keep-alive semantics and the EventSource reconnection protocol to manage connection lifecycle without application-layer ping/pong. Client-side reconnection is handled natively by the browser's EventSource implementation using the Last-Event-ID header.
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Recommended Citation
Burton, Aaron, "Session Management Architecture for Server-Sent Events Transport in Persistent Connection Delivery Systems", Technical Disclosure Commons, (April 01, 2026)
https://www.tdcommons.org/dpubs_series/9678