API Integration Provider for Personalized System-of-Record Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems limit personalized functionality access to systems of record without user-specific credentials, restricting tailored interactions and responses.
Innovation Solution
An API integration provider service hosts API integrations directly accessible to clients via integration API endpoints, translating data formats and authenticating API calls to enable seamless access to various systems of record, allowing consistent and personalized interactions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If existing systems require user-specific credentials for accessing systems of record, then security and authentication are improved, but personalized functionality access and ease of operation are restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an API integration provider service as an intermediary layer between client devices and systems of record. This service hosts API integrations that translate data formats and authenticate API calls on behalf of clients, eliminating the need for clients to manage user-specific credentials while maintaining security. The intermediary handles authentication complexities, allowing personalized functionality access without compromising security.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple API endpoints are configured to perform the same operation, then system versatility and adaptability are improved, but system complexity and difficulty of management increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal API integration provider service that can host multiple API integrations for different systems of record through a single standardized interface. Rather than requiring separate integration management for each API endpoint, the service provides multi-functional capability to handle various systems (e.g., Workday, SuccessFactors) through unified data format translation and authentication mechanisms, reducing management complexity while maintaining versatility.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements template-based API integration configurations that can be copied and reused across multiple systems. Instead of manually configuring each API endpoint from scratch, the system uses pre-defined templates that can be instantiated for different systems of record, significantly reducing the complexity of managing multiple API integrations while maintaining system versatility.
3Manufacturing precision
If custom data format translations are implemented for each system of record, then data accuracy and compatibility are improved, but development time and resource requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses template-based data format translation configurations that can be copied and adapted for different systems of record. Instead of developing custom translation logic for each system, the service provides pre-defined translation templates that ensure data accuracy and compatibility while significantly reducing development effort. These templates can be reused across multiple integrations with minimal customization.
Solution Approach 2:
The API integration provider service implements a universal data translation layer that handles format conversions for multiple systems of record through a single standardized interface. This multi-functional translation capability maintains data accuracy and compatibility across different systems without requiring separate development efforts for each system, as the service automatically routes and translates data according to the target system requirements.
Data Source
AI summary
One disclosed method involves receiving, at a first application programming interface (API) endpoint of a computing system, a first API call requesting performance of a first type of operation; invoking, by the computing system and based on the first API call, a first process to send at least a second API call to a second API endpoint of a first system of record; receiving, by the computing system and from the first system of record, a first response to the second API call; and sending, from the computing system to a source of the first API call, a second response that is based at least in part on the first response.