Bidirectional Resource Protection Verification with Local Status Caching
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing resource protection systems lack an efficient method to verify the presence and integrity of resource protection policies in real-time, leading to process pauses and delays when initiating processes that rely on protected resources.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-based verification server stores data subsets from multiple resource protection systems, allowing for real-time verification by querying a local database and periodically receiving updates from these systems, enabling rapid confirmation of active protection policies without significant delays.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a process pauses to verify resource protection policy with individual resource protection systems, then verification reliability is improved, but process time and productivity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The verification server proactively queries resource protection systems in advance to retrieve protection status information before processes need verification. This preliminary action stores the data locally, so when verification is actually needed, the server can immediately return pre-fetched information without pausing the process for real-time verification.
Solution Approach 2:
The verification server creates a local copy of resource protection status information by querying individual protection systems and storing the data in its own database. This copying allows the server to provide rapid verification responses without repeatedly contacting the original protection systems, thus reducing process wait time while maintaining verification reliability.
2Measurement precision
If a process sends verification requests to individual resource protection systems, then verification accuracy is improved, but system complexity and device complexity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The verification server acts as an intermediary between client processes and individual resource protection systems. It receives verification requests from clients, queries the appropriate resource protection systems, and returns standardized responses. This intermediary layer simplifies the overall system architecture by centralizing verification logic and shielding clients from the complexity of directly interacting with multiple protection systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The verification server provides a universal verification interface that handles multiple types of resource protection systems through a single standardized API. Instead of requiring clients to implement different verification mechanisms for different protection systems, the server consolidates these into one universal service, reducing client-side complexity while maintaining accurate verification across diverse protection systems.
3Stability of the object's composition
If real-time verification is implemented without local data storage, then data freshness is improved, but verification speed and productivity deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The verification server performs preliminary queries to resource protection systems and stores the results locally in its database. This allows the server to provide rapid verification responses by reading from local storage rather than making real-time network requests, thus achieving both high verification speed and data freshness through proactive data gathering.
Solution Approach 2:
The verification server implements periodic updates of resource protection status information by querying protection systems at scheduled intervals. This periodic action ensures that the locally stored data remains fresh and up-to-date while enabling fast verification responses, as the data is already cached and only needs to be updated periodically rather than continuously.
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AI summary
A method of verifying resource protection statuses for resources for address-based resources may include receiving a request for verification of resource protection from a client device for an address-based resource. The request includes an address of a resource. The intermediate system is programmed to receive resource protection verification requests from a plurality of client devices, and to receive resource protection verifications from a plurality of resource protection systems that are in communication with the intermediate system. The method also includes determining that none of the resource protection systems in the plurality of resource protection systems currently protect the resource; retrieving information that is securely stored for the resource and a user associated with the request; and sending the information to one or more of the plurality of resource protection systems as a request to protect the resource.