Patents by Inventor Elizabeth Ann Hutchison

Elizabeth Ann Hutchison has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Dynamic web service implementation discovery and selection apparatus and method
    Publication number: 20040111525
    Abstract: The present invention provides a mechanism for the dynamic discovery and selection of web service implementations at runtime without explicit client control. With the mechanism of the present invention, service requests are received from clients and a portType or other type identifier of operations that need to be supported by a service implementation is identified. A discovery mechanism is invoked for querying service information sources to identify candidates from these sources that support the portType or operations identified. A list of these candidates is compiled and a selection mechanism is used to select a candidate from the compiled list. The selected candidate is then used to generate a service object used by a client for accessing the actual service implementation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2002
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Philip Theodore Berkland, Gregory Alan Flurry, Simon Antony James Holdsworth, Elizabeth Ann Hutchison