Appeal 2007-0937
Application 10/666,869
to an administrative system supporting the first web service." The second
issue, therefore, is whether Fletcher II discloses the limitations of storing
provisioning processes data for each web service that correlates to an
administrative system supporting the web services and invoking that data.
Fletcher II discloses (Fletcher II, para. 0035) that an aggregated
service is a web service comprised of sub-services (which are also web
services). Fletcher II discloses (Fletcher II, para. 0051):
A developer who creates the source code for a software
resource to be deployed as a web service specifies the
authentication, authorization, and/or configuration methods to
be provided by that service. The services may then be
aggregated as described in the related inventions, and the
techniques of the present invention may be used for
provisioning the aggregated service.
As an example, Fletcher II states (Fletcher II, para. 0051) that the
aggregated service provides e-mail services for a human user, and a
sub-service establishes a user's e-mail account. The sub-service is a
provisioning web service that correlates to an administrative system.
Fletcher II continues (Fletcher II, para. 0051) that establishing the
user's e-mail account requires inputting and storing information such
as the user's full name, an e-mail user identifier, a password, and
configuration information, or, rather, provisioning processes data.
Fletcher II discloses (Fletcher II, para. 0051) that WSDL documents
define the operations provided by the sub-services and the parameters
used to invoke the operations. Further, since the stored user identifier
and password can be used to authenticate the user to access e-mail
messages using another sub-service of the aggregated e-mail service,
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