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Web browser extension for simplified utilization of web services

US7870482B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

Thomas H. Gnech · Eppelheim, DE
Steffen Koenig · Heidelberg, DE
Oliver Petrik · Stuttgart, DE
Holger J. Scheller · Greensboro, US

Key dates

Filing date	Jan 30, 2009
Grant date	Jan 11, 2011
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Jul 6, 2029

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG06F16/972
WIPO fieldComputer technology
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A method of automatically consuming and processing web services includes parsing a first document describing a web service to identify a first set of attribute-value pairs describing a function offered by the web service and a second set of attribute-value pairs specifying instructions for processing result data returned by the function for rendering in a user interface element; constructing an invocation request object for invoking the first function based upon the first and second sets of attribute-value pairs; and processing the result data returned by the first function based upon the second set of attribute-value pairs to generate a set of code executable to render a presentation of the result data in the user interface element. The second set of attribute-value pairs includes a first attribute-value pair specifying a data type for the result data and a second attribute-value pair specifying a first instruction for processing the result data.

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