Patent ID: 7672680

Claim:
A web services architecture, comprising: a web services application framework that provides functional components usable by a plurality of web services provided to mobile devices, wherein the functional components include an identity federation component that identifies a mobile device; a telecommunications provider system that hosts the web services application framework and federates information from the functional components; and a service provider that provides at least one of the plurality of web services to the mobile device and requests information from the telecommunications provider system utilized by the service provider in providing the at least one of the plurality of web services, wherein the telecommunications provider system federates the requested information by using the identity federation component and at least two of the functional components of the web services application framework, wherein the at least two of the functional components perform functions to determine at least a portion of the federated information that is usable by the at least one of the plurality of web services thereby relieving the at least one of the plurality of web services from performing the functions performed by the at least two of the functional components; wherein the telecommunications provider sends the federated information to the service provider, and wherein the service provider uses the federated information to provide a mobile device web service to the mobile device.