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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 17, 1999
Alan H. Karp, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Rajiv Gupta, Los Altos, CA (US);
Arindam Banerji, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Chia-Chiang Chao, Saratoga, CA (US);
Ernest Mak, Fremont, CA (US);
Sandeep Kumar, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hewlett-Packard Company, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A software system with self-describing attribute vocabularies that enhance the capability of service providers to advertise their resources and that facilitate the addition of new types of attributes and resources to the system. Each self-describing attribute vocabulary is characterized by a corresponding set of attribute properties and a corresponding set of:matching rules that are adapted to the corresponding attribute properties. The software system includes a matching engine that enables a service provider of a resource to describe the resource to the software system in terms of any one or more of the self-describing attribute vocabularies.