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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2014
Filed:
May. 03, 2011
Tamer Aboualy, Toronto, CA;
Omkharan Arasaratnam, Ajax, CA;
Stewart Wolfe, Ajax, CA;
Nevenko Zunic, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
Tamer Aboualy, Toronto, CA;
Omkharan Arasaratnam, Ajax, CA;
Stewart Wolfe, Ajax, CA;
Nevenko Zunic, Hopewell Junction, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method including querying a service provider for functional and nonfunctional qualifications of the service provider to provide a service having functional and nonfunctional requirements; responsive to input from the service provider, receiving by a requestor the functional qualifications and nonfunctional qualifications of the service provider including attesting by a third party, not the service provider or requestor, to at least the nonfunctional qualifications of the service provider; evaluating the functional qualifications and attested to nonfunctional qualifications of the service provider; and selecting a service provider having functional and attested to nonfunctional qualifications complying with the functional and nonfunctional requirements of the requestor. The method may be performed on one or more computing devices. Also disclosed is a computer program product.