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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2008
David J. Seager, Winchester, GB;
Martin J. Smithson, Wherwell, GB;
David J. Seager, Winchester, GB;
Martin J. Smithson, Wherwell, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for filter extraction in a service registry includes receiving a user's request in a registry for a list of items in the registry; generating a set of item results by the registry; passing the item results from the registry to a framework; retrieving a list of filter providers by the framework; determining whether all of the filter providers have been used; wherein if all have been used: displaying a list that includes a filter provider title, and one or more filters for each filter provider; wherein if all the filter providers have not been used: retrieving the next filter provider; calling the next filter provider; passing the item results to the next filter provider; determining which filters are applicable based on metadata of the item results; generating a list of applicable filters by the next filter provider; passing the list of applicable filters back to the framework.