Autonomic discovery and integration of complementary internet services

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9948731-B2
Application number	US-201213420422-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 14, 2012
Priority date	Mar 14, 2012
Publication date	Apr 17, 2018
Grant date	Apr 17, 2018

Abstract

A method can include discovering a plurality of services that are complementary to an offered service and selecting a service from the plurality of services as a candidate for integration with the offered service. The method further can include automatically generating a new service, using a processor, by integrating the candidate service with the offered service. The new service can be included in a service catalog.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method, comprising:
discovering a plurality of services that are complementary to an offered service;
selecting a service from the plurality of services as a candidate for integration with the offered service;
automatically generating a new service, using a processor, by integrating the candidate service with the offered service; wherein the automatically generating the new service generates program code that invokes the candidate service in a cooperative manner with the offered service; and
including the new service in a service catalog.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
searching social media for services that are complementary to the offered service.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
searching data specifying associations between users and cloud service providers for services that are complementary to the offered service.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: subscribing to a feed from a service provider; and
searching the feed for services that are complementary to the offered service.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
determining whether each of the plurality of services is compatible with the offered service.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
comparing an attribute from a service description of each service with a service requirement for integration with the offered service.

7. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
comparing an attribute from an application programming interface of each service with a service requirement for integration with the offered service.

8. The method of claim 5 , further comprising:
scoring each compatible service according to an attribute of a service level agreement for the service.

9. A method, comprising:
determining a plurality of services that are complementary to an offered service;
determining whether each of the plurality of services is compatible with the offered service;
selecting a compatible service as a candidate for integration with the offered service;
and automatically generating a new service, using a processor, by integrating the candidate service with the offered service
wherein the automatically generating the new service generates program code that invokes the candidate service in a cooperative manner with the offered service.

10. The method of claim 9 , wherein selecting further comprises:
scoring each compatible service according to an attribute of a service level agreement for the service; and
choosing the service with at least a minimum score as the candidate.

11. The method of claim 9 , wherein determining whether each of the plurality of services is compatible comprises:
comparing an application programming interface of each service with a list of requirements for integration with the offered service.

Assignees

• Deshmukh Abhijit A
• Srivastava Anurag
• IBM

Inventors

• Deshmukh Abhijit A
• Srivastava Anurag

Classifications

• H04L67/16 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/51 Primary

  Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services · CPC title