Publishing Venue
The IP.com Prior Art Database
Abstract
Disclosed is a method for an identification and classification mechanism for discoverable software services. Benefits include an improved classification and identification scheme for a common tag to be used in the discovery of software services. This method provides taxonomy and a guide for identifying the service that may be discovered.
Method for an identification and classification mechanism
for discoverable software services
Disclosed is a method for an identification and classification
mechanism for discoverable software services. Benefits include an improved
classification and identification scheme for a common tag to be used in the
discovery of software services. This method provides taxonomy and a guide for
identifying the service that may be discovered.
Problem being addressed
No
conventional method exists to identify conforming candidates during the
assembly of a compound application using components from various
vendors/locations. For example, a user might want to discover and use a
shopping cart component for an e-commerce Web site. The software service can be
discovered in a variety of ways, but each discovery method imposes its own
lookup methodology based on strings, vendor name, or other method.
Some
of these discovery services provide unique naming via UIDs or GUIDs, but each
discoverable name-to-service mapping is independent of the type of the service.
Although two services might work equally well for the application, the
component’s mapping scheme must be described to the compound application. The
use of a universal software service code that provides a common classified
identification would solve the problem without having to code the alternatives
into the compound application.
General description
Each
software component service should provide as an attribute, a number based on an
extension of the United Nations Standard Product and Services Classification
(UNSPSC). This classification scheme currently provides universal markings for
consumer products and for personal services (such as database programming and
financial accounting). An extension to this classification provides for a
common universal identification of all shopping carts (as in the example
above), for all geographic coordinate transforms, or, in general, for all
software services that are similar.
Detailed description
The
current format of the identifiers is contained in Figure...