Patent ID: 8812626

Claim:
Interaction process between service-oriented components and devices, wherein services offered by a service provider are requested by a service requester, wherein each service comprises a set of ports and each port is an instance of an import type which defines a set of interaction operations and corresponding message transfers between the service provider and the service requester, wherein the service provided by the service provider is implemented through multiple interaction phases, namely discovery phase, negotiation phase, operational phase and completion phase with the service requester, each comprising at least one operational phase and wherein the interaction phases follow specific protocols linked to the instances of the port type, characterized in that one or more port types with the associated access protocol are assigned to each interaction phase, in that physical ports of the service-oriented device or the service-oriented component are assigned to the logical port types of the operational phase, and in that access to the service is generated via the port types that are linked to the physical ports.