US Patent 7433835: Providing a marketplace for web services

1. A computer-implemented method for selling access to Web services to Web service consumers who are unrelated to Web service providers who provide those Web services, the method comprising:
in response to registration requests from providers of Web services, registering Web services so as to make access to those Web services available for purchase by unrelated consumers of Web services, the registered Web services each having at least one associated use price;