JOEL THOMAS TRUNICK
Pilots at Haley Holw, Austin, TX

8069181, Nov 29, 2011

Jun 20, 2006

11/455957

Gopal Krishnan - Austin TX, US
Chaitanya Laxminarayan - Austin TX, US
Matthew Sanchez - Round Rock TX, US
Manoj Saxena - Austin TX, US
Joel Trunick - Austin TX, US

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 7/00

707769, 709203, 709246

An autodiscovery feature with an easy-to-use interface is provided to automatically collect metadata about electronic services for use within a business enterprise and to store that metadata in a metadata repository. The autodiscovery feature is used to create autodiscovery queries that are sent to electronic services to collect from the services' digests specified metadata useful for identifying the functionality of those services and integrating the services into business processes. Digests, such as RSS feeds and Atom feeds, are typically created by services to include useful metadata, such as the title of a service, the URL link to a description of the service, a brief description of the service, the publication date of the service, and other data. Autodiscovery queries can thus collect services' relevant metadata and store it in a business enterprise's metadata repository, so that the services' functionality can be quickly identified and used for business processes.