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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012

Filed:

Jan. 30, 2009
Applicants:

Sujoy Basu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Sharad Singhal, Belmont, CA (US);

Sven Graupner, Mountain View, CA (US);

Mehmet Kivanc Ozonat, Mountain View, CA (US);

Donald E. Young, Portland, OR (US);

Inventors:

Sujoy Basu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Sharad Singhal, Belmont, CA (US);

Sven Graupner, Mountain View, CA (US);

Mehmet Kivanc Ozonat, Mountain View, CA (US);

Donald E. Young, Portland, OR (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Candidate service providers for a desired service are ranked. Terms describing service requirements for a desired service are determined. Service capability documents describing the services of the candidate service providers are determined using the terms describing the service requirements. Using singular value decomposition (SVD) and a metric, similarities between the terms describing the service requirements and the service capability documents are determined. The candidate service providers are ranked based on the similarities.


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