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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 01, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2016
Applicant:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Inventors:
Paul T. Nolan, Winchester, GB;
Christopher E. Sharp, Winchester, GB;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); G06F 9/50 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/16 (2013.01); G06F 9/5055 (2013.01); H04L 67/02 (2013.01); Y02D 10/22 (2018.01);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and software is disclosed in which options for the provision of a service are each identified by an option identifier for use in determining the applicable options for a given service request.