US 2004/0107196 A1 · Web service agent

Abstract

Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for providing a web service agent application. The web service agent application has a communication module and a processing module. The communication module receives requests from one or more web service applications or one or more adaptive agent applications; and transmits responses to one or more web service applications or one or more adaptive agent applications. The processing module receives a request for information from the communication module; identifies a resource that can fulfill the request for information; obtains a response to the request from the identified resource; and delivers the response to the request to the communication module.

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Dependent claims

A web service agent application, comprising:

a communication module operable to:
receive requests from one or more web service applications or one or more adaptive agent applications;
and
transmit responses to one or more web service applications or one or more adaptive agent applications;
and
a processing module operable to
receive a request for information from the communication module;
identify a resource that can fulfill the request for information;
obtain a response to the request from the identified resource;
and
deliver the response to the request to the communication module.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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Abstract

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