Managing service specifications and the discovery of associated services

US8966047B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Rahul P. Akolkar · Austin, US
• Arun Kwangil Iyengar · Yorktown Heights, US
• Isabelle M. Rouvellou · New York, US
• Ignacio Silva-Lepe · Putnam Valley, US
• Revathi Subramanian · San Diego, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jan 18, 2013
• Grant date: Feb 24, 2015
• Expiry date: Jan 18, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/103
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Various embodiments manage service labels for association with service specifications in a service-oriented environment. In one embodiment at least one candidate service label is received from a user associated with a service domain of a distributed federated service-oriented environment. The candidate service label includes at least one of a service type and a set of terms characterizing a service. The candidate service label is sent to a community of users associated with one or more service domains in the distributed federated service-oriented environment. One of a vote for accepting the candidate service label and a vote for rejecting the candidate service label is received from each of a plurality of users in the community of users. The candidate service label is stored as an accepted service label in the service domain based on a number of votes for accepting the candidate service label being above a given threshold.