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Provisioning web services

  • US 7,506,021 B2
  • Filed: 09/18/2003
  • Issued: 03/17/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A web service provisioning system for provisioning a plurality of web services, the provisioning system comprising:

  • a subscription system including;

    web service description data storage for storing web service description data correlated to each web service of the plurality of web services, wherein the web service description data defines the respective web service in Web Services Definition Language, andprovisioning processes data storage for storing respective provisioning processes data for each web service of the plurality of web services and for each of a plurality of provisioning web services that correlate to respective administrative systems supporting the plurality of web services, wherein the provisioning processes data comprises a plurality of nodes, and wherein each node of the plurality of nodes comprises web service invocation data for invoking the respective provisioning web service, and wherein the provisioning processes data is in Web Services Flow Language; and

    an invocation system operatively coupled to the subscription system and configured for;

    receiving a selection of a first web service,invoking the respective provisioning processes data for the first web service, andinvoking the respective provisioning processes data for each provisioning web service that correlates to an administrative system supporting the first web service.

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