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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2015
Filed:
Oct. 20, 2008
Muralidhara Varmaraja, Fremont, CA (US);
Hang LU, Foster City, CA (US);
Ashish Singhal, Union City, CA (US);
Eugene Chikovani, Cupertino, CA (US);
Muralidhara Varmaraja, Fremont, CA (US);
Hang Lu, Foster City, CA (US);
Ashish Singhal, Union City, CA (US);
Eugene Chikovani, Cupertino, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Various techniques for providing product configuration as a Web Service are disclosed. One method involves receiving a Web Service signature requesting access to a product configuration session to configure a product and accessing information representing an instance of the product, in response to receipt of the Web Service signature. A responsive Web Service signature, containing information such as the price of the instance of the product, whether the instance of the product represents a valid configuration, and/or indicative of options available to further configure the product, can be returned to the application that requested access to the session. The requester can request multiple changes to the instance of the product, and validation of those changes can be delayed until after all of the changes have been applied (as opposed to each change being validated independently). A single configurator can handle requests received via multiple different sales channels.