Patent Document ID: 7870482
Application ID: 12362746

Base Claim:
1. A method of automatically consuming and processing web services, the method comprising: parsing a first document describing a deployed web service by a processor to identify a first set of attribute-value pairs describing a first function offered by the web service and a second set of attribute-value pairs specifying instructions for processing result data returned by the first function for rendering in a user interface element implemented by a web service client, the second set of attribute-value pairs including a first attribute-value pair specifying a data type for the result data returned by the first function and a second attribute-value pair specifying a first instruction for processing the result data returned by the first function; constructing an invocation request object for invoking the first function based upon the first and second sets of attribute-value pairs; and processing the result data returned by the first function based upon the second set of attribute-value pairs to generate a set of code executable by the web service client to render a presentation of the result data returned by the first function in the user interface element.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first instruction for processing the result data returned by the first function specified by the second attribute-value pair specifies that a data type of the result data returned by the first function is included in the result data returned by the first function, and further comprising processing the result data returned by the first function to identify a third attribute-value pair specifying a rendering format for the result data returned by the first function and zero or more attribute-value pairs specifying details for rendering the result data returned by the first function based upon the rendering format.