“…Pattern o suggests a mediation framework or a mediation element to cope with the resource constraints of mobile devices. The mediator responsibilities involve service invocation on behalf of a mobile service consumer [Reyes et al., ], WS‐Security processing of a mobile service provider [Srirama, Jarke, and Prin, , ; Asif, Majumdar, and Dragnea, ], WS‐Policy processing of a mobile service provider [Asif, Majumdar, and Dragnea, ], using agents to serve as a mobile proxy to continue service interactions regardless of mobile device disconnections [Leong et al., ], and to distribute service invocation tasks with small granularity such as discovery, extraction, selection, installation, invocation, and presentation of a service's output [Duda, Aleksy, and Butter, ].…”