Patent ID: 8370292

Claim:
A method for information service identification during service modeling of a service oriented architecture (SOA) architected computing system, the method comprising: loading a business process that consumes a set of different business services in memory of a service modeling tool executing in a host computing platform; identifying different information elements directed for access by the business services; determining a set of information transactions for the identified different information elements; identifying dependencies resulting from one of the business services acting upon a corresponding one of the information elements temporally prior to a different one of the business services acting upon the same corresponding one of the information elements; generalizing one or more different information transactions for business service not dependent upon others of the business services to an information service to form a candidate list of information services; selecting from amongst the candidate list a selection of information services for incorporation into the business process; and, refining the business services of the business process to invoke the selection of information services to access the identified different information elements.