API Link Method for Secure Mall Data Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems for linking upper and lower shopping malls face issues with real-time database synchronization, security risks, and increased operational burdens, particularly in managing separate databases and interfaces.
Innovation Solution
An API link method that enables an upper shopping mall to connect with an independent shopping mall through a web server and API server, allowing secure data access and management, with the independent shopping mall web server receiving inquiries and requests, extracting necessary data, and converting it for a unique user interface.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the lower shopping mall directly accesses the upper shopping mall database, then data access is simplified, but security risks increase and operational control is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an API server as an intermediary layer between the lower shopping mall and the upper shopping mall database. The API server receives requests from the lower shopping mall, validates them against predefined rules, and selectively retrieves data from the upper shopping mall database. This mediator approach allows simplified data access while maintaining security and operational control through centralized request management and authorization.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the lower shopping mall reproduces the upper shopping mall database, then data independence is improved, but real-time synchronization is lost and system resources are wasted
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the necessary data from the upper shopping mall database through API calls rather than replicating the entire database. The lower shopping mall requests specific data items (e.g., product information, order status) only when needed, extracting minimal required data from the central database. This extraction approach maintains data independence for the lower shopping mall while enabling real-time access to updated information without wasting resources on full database replication.
3Adaptability or versatility
If separate databases are maintained for upper and lower shopping malls, then operational independence is improved, but management burden and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the database infrastructure into a single upper shopping mall database while maintaining operational independence through API-based access controls. Instead of each shopping mall maintaining its own database, the system combines data storage in one centralized database and provides access to lower shopping malls through the API server. This merging approach reduces management complexity and costs while preserving operational independence through selective data access rights.
Data Source
AI summary
The present invention relates to a link system and link method of an upper shopping mall and an independent shopping mall of API (application programming interface) link method, in particular, to a technology that builds and manages an independent shopping mall having an independent domain address and an user interface besides the upper shopping mall which is registered together with the other sellers. According to the present invention, provided is a link system of an upper shopping mall having a plurality of sellers and an independent shopping mall operated independently by one person among the sellers, of API link method, which comprises a shopping mall database that stores a goods information, a member information, and a payment and delivery information; an independent shopping mall web server receives a goods inquiry or a purchase request from a user to output a factor for extracting data of the shopping mall database, and receives a necessary data from the shopping mall database; and an API server receives a factor from the independent shopping mall web server to analyze, and accesses to the shopping mall database so as to request that the necessary data should be sent to the independent shopping mall web server.