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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2008
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2002
YE Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hartmut K. Vogler, Foster City, CA (US);
Christian Drumm, Ulmet, DE;
Kaj Van DE Loo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Claudius Link, Edingen, DE;
Ye Chen, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Hartmut K. Vogler, Foster City, CA (US);
Christian Drumm, Ulmet, DE;
Kaj Van De Loo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Claudius Link, Edingen, DE;
SAP AG, Walldorf, DE;
Abstract
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for providing a web service agent application. The web service agent application has a communication module and a processing module. The communication module receives requests from one or more web service applications or one or more adaptive agent applications; and transmits responses to one or more web service applications or one or more adaptive agent applications. The processing module receives a request for information from the communication module; identifies a resource that can fulfill the request for information; obtains a response to the request from the identified resource; and delivers the response to the request to the communication module.