Patent Document ID: 7665120
Application ID: 11055435

Base Claim:
1. At a computer system in a Web Services environment, a method of presenting a user with an easily understandable visual representation summarizing selected criteria of a yet to be generated Web Service policy by utilizing a wizard type tool, which abstracts the user from code used to satisfy the policy, the method comprising acts of: presenting a set of Web Service policy options to a user at a user interface, which abstracts the user from any specific code that will be generated for a policy document that satisfies one or more of the set of Web Service policy options; receiving user input selecting desired criteria from the set of Web Service policy options; after receiving the user input, and based thereon, generating a graphical model including one or more keywords or symbols representing all of the desired criteria for the policy document; after receiving all the user input selecting desired criteria, presenting the graphical model representing all of the desired criteria to the user at the user interface for providing a visual recap of the policy document that is yet to be generated; generating the policy document after presenting to the user the graphical model representing all of the desired criteria selected by the user; receiving user input modifying the desired criteria; and generating a new graphical model in response to receiving the user input modifying the desired criteria.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein a plurality of set of Web Service options are presented to the user through a plurality of pages in the wizard type tool, and wherein the user selects a plurality of desired criteria from the plurality of set of Web Service options and the graphical model is presented to the user after each selection of the plurality of desired criteria.