Determination of a service description most closely matching a specified service name

A computer program product comprising a computer readable hardware storage device having a computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code containing instructions that, upon being executed by a processor of a computer system, perform a method for determining a service description that most closely matches a service name provided by a user, said method comprising:

• said processor determining that the service name provided by the user is not an exact match to a service name in a service registry that comprises service names and associated service descriptions;
• said processor generating a ranked service name, wherein the ranked service name comprises at least one alternative service name and a respective rank of each alternative service name, and wherein the respective rank indicates how closely the alternative service name associated with the respective rank resembles the service name provided by the user;
• said processor ascertaining a service description associated with a service name in the service registry that either matches the highest ranked alternative service name in the service name list or matches the next highest ranked alternative service name in the service name list;
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• said processor communicating the ascertained service description to the user, wherein said ascertaining comprises:
• (i) sorting the ranked service name list by respective rank of each alternative service name;
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• (ii) searching the service registry for the service description with the at least one alternative service name from a top entry of the ranked alternative service name such that the service description is associated with the highest ranked alternative service name.

A computer system comprising a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a computer readable storage device coupled to the processor, said storage device containing program code configured to be executed by the processor via the memory to implement a method for determining a service description that most closely matches a service name provided by a user, said method comprising:

• said processor determining that the service name provided by the user is not an exact match to a service name in a service registry that comprises service names and associated service descriptions;
• said processor generating a ranked service name, wherein the ranked service name comprises at least one alternative service name and a respective rank of each alternative service name of the at least one alternative service name, and wherein the respective rank indicates how closely the alternative service name associated with the respective rank resembles the service name provided by the user;
• said processor ascertaining a service description associated with a service name in the service registry that either matches the highest ranked alternative service name in the service name list or matches the next highest ranked alternative service name in the service name list;
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• said processor communicating the ascertained service description to the user, wherein said ascertaining comprises:
• (i) sorting the ranked service name list by respective rank of each alternative service name;
• and
• (ii) searching the service registry for the service description with the at least one alternative service name from a top entry of the ranked alternative service name such that the service description is associated with the highest ranked alternative service name.