Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc.

Verizon Services Corporation

Paul Bolduc

Ruchir Rodrigues

Srinivas Anumala

Austin Lorenzo

Vishnu Goyal

Mehul K Shah

Disclosed is a system and method for managing web services. The described exemplary system and method provides an infrastructure for managing various aspects of publishing and using web services, such as logging, security, monitoring, SLA management, service level metrics and notification.

System and method for web services management

An exemplary method includes () receiving a web service request for a particular web service, along with user identification credentials, from a web service subscriber, the request and the credentials being received into a service agent of a web service publisher, () determining whether the credentials are cached in the service agent, and further, whether the credentials are valid, () in response to a determination that the credentials are not cached in the service agent, initiating a security service to authorize the web service subscriber to access the particular web service, () in response to a determination that the credentials are cached in the service agent and are invalid, responding to the web service subscriber with an error message, and () in response to a determination that the credentials are cached in the service agent and are valid, passing the web service request to the particular web service for access.

Web services security system and method

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