Data API Platform Switching for Connection Reliability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing solutions fail to proactively detect and prevent data API connection failures, leading to users being locked out of their financial information and experiencing delays in accessing their accounts.
Innovation Solution
The system detects potential data API connection failures and provides an alternative connection via a different data API platform, ensuring that users can access their financial information without interruption.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a single data API platform is used to connect to financial institutions, then the system structure is simple, but the connection reliability deteriorates when the platform experiences failures
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple data API platforms (first data API platform and second data API platform) into a unified system that can interchangeably connect to financial institutions. This merging approach allows the system to maintain connection reliability by switching between platforms while keeping the overall architecture manageable through centralized control logic.
Solution Approach 2:
The system dynamically changes the parameter of platform selection by detecting connection failures and switching from one data API platform to another. This parameter change (platform identity) resolves the contradiction by adapting the system configuration based on real-time connection status, thereby maintaining reliability without permanently increasing structural complexity.
2Reliability
If connection failure detection and platform switching is implemented, then connection reliability is improved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by establishing connections through the first data API platform before potential failures occur. The failure detection mechanism and backup platform are pre-configured, allowing rapid switching without complex real-time decision-making logic, thus improving reliability while controlling complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary mechanism (the data API platform switching system) that mediates between the user device and financial institutions. This intermediary handles the complexity of multi-platform management and failure detection, shielding the user from complexity while maintaining high connection reliability through automated platform switching.
3Ease of operation
If proactive failure detection is implemented, then user accessibility is improved, but the use of energy increases due to continuous monitoring
Solution Approach 1:
The system implements self-service by automatically detecting connection failures and switching platforms without requiring user intervention. This automation improves user accessibility while managing energy consumption through event-driven monitoring that activates primarily when connection issues arise, rather than continuous high-energy monitoring.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs feedback mechanisms where connection status is continuously monitored and fed back to the system controller. When failure indicators are detected, the system triggers platform switching. This feedback-based approach balances energy consumption by monitoring essential parameters while only activating energy-intensive switching operations when actually needed, thereby maintaining ease of operation.
Data Source
AI summary
A data application programming interface (API) platform can help connect to a data API of a financial entity. The present disclosure is related to determining that a connection to the data API via a first data API platform is likely to be unsuccessful (e.g., fail, not support, low performance, etc.) and providing a connection via a second data API platform.