Patent ID: 9454404
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: G06F,H04L,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method for identifying a set of options for provision of a Web service between a Web service provider computer system and a Web service requestor computer, the method comprising: assigning, by an encoder of the Web service provider computer system, an option identifier to each option in the set of options for the provision of the Web service; in response to a request received from the Web service requestor computer relating to the Web service, identifying in an alternative code table in memory of a computer, by an alternative code checker of the Web service provider computer system, an option identifier in the request and also determining, by the alternative code checker of the Web service provider computer system, whether the received identified option identifier corresponds to one of the option identifiers assigned to the set of options; and upon determining that the received option identifier corresponds to one of the option identifiers assigned to the set of options, identifying, by the alternative code checker of the Web service provider computer system, the received request with the corresponding option for use when provisioning the Web service in response to the received request by the Web service provision logic of the Web service provider computer system, wherein each option of the set of options comprises a set of elements identifying one or more security options, quality of service options, and transport protocol options each having an element identifier, and wherein each option identifier for a given option is derived from a combination of the corresponding element identifiers for the option.