Patent 8005967 was granted and assigned to Software AG on August, 2011 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A system and method for policy negotiation in a web services platform includes a client node and a provider server that transmits policy alternatives to the client node. The client node selects at least one policy from the policy alternatives and transmit the selected policy to the provider server. The provider server verifies the client's policy selection based on the policy alternatives and communicates over a network with the node based on the selected policy.