Ex Parte Polan et al - Page 2

               Appeal 2007-0937                                                                             
               Application 10/666,869                                                                       

               through 3, 5, 8, 9, and 11 through 13, which are all of the claims pending in                
               this application.                                                                            
                      Appellants' invention relates to a web service provisioning system.                   
               Claim 1 is illustrative of the claimed invention, and it reads as follows:                   
               1.     A web service provisioning system for provisioning a plurality of web                 
               services, the provisioning system comprising:                                                
                      a subscription system including:                                                      
                            web service description data storage for storing web service                    
                            description data correlated to each web service of the plurality                
                            of web services, wherein the web service description data                       
                            defines the respective web service in Web Services Definition                   
                            Language, and                                                                   
                            provisioning process data storage for storing respective                        
                            provisioning processes data for each web service of the                         
                            plurality of web services and for each of a plurality of                        
                            provisioning web services that correlate to respective                          
                            administrative systems supporting the plurality of web services,                
                            wherein the provisioning processes data is in Web Services                      
                            Flow Language; and                                                              
                      an invocation system operatively coupled to the subscription system                   
                      and configured for:                                                                   
                            receiving a selection of a first web service,                                   
                            invoking the respective provisioning processes data for the first               
                            web service, and                                                                
                            invoking the respective provisioning processes data for each                    
                            provisioning web service that correlates to an administrative                   
                            system supporting the first web service.                                        



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