Management of service quality information in web services
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorAkira Sano
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Abstract
A selection criterion appropriate for searching for a web service in UDDI. A provider that provides web services collects result information, which will be used to judge the quality of provided web services, and sends the information to a UDDI site). The UDDI site manages this result information and, in response to a web service search request from a requestor, returns a searched web service and result information on the web service.
Claims11
A method of selecting a web service comprising:
- transmitting a search request for a service from a service requestor to a management site that searches for software services provided via a network;
- obtaining by the search requestor a service search result from the management site including information for determining quality of services corresponding to a plurality of provider sites, wherein the quality of service information is provided by the provider sites and accumulated by the management sites;
- selecting by the service requestor at least one software service based on the obtained search result;
- and
- transmitting a request to execute the selected service to the service provider.
A network system that provides software services via a network, comprising:
- a computer-readable memory;
- at least two service providers for providing a software service;
- and
- a management service comprising a control program for:
- receiving a service request corresponding to the software service from a service requestor:
- searching for the at least two service providers;
- collecting quality of service (QoS) information corresponding to each of the at least two service providers, wherein the QoS information is provided by the at least two service providers and accumulated by the management service;
- and
- transmitting the QoS information to the service requestor to enable the service requestor to select among the at least two service providers.
A computer program for selecting a web service comprising:
- a computer-readable memory;
- and
- logic, stored on the memory for execution on a processor, for:
- transmitting a search request for a service from a service requestor to a management site that searches for software services provided via a network;
- obtaining by the search requestor a service search result from the management site including information for determining quality of services corresponding to a plurality of provider sites, wherein the quality of service information is provided by the plurality of provider sites and accumulated by the management site′
- selecting by the service requestor at least one software service based on the obtained search result;
- and
- transmitting a request to execute the selected service to the service provider.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.