Blockchain Integration Platform for Decentralized Record Keeping
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current software integration and automation of disparate enterprise systems require high technical expertise, leading to logistical and cost issues due to the need for specialized personnel and intermediaries, and existing solutions do not adequately address the complexity of integrating and maintaining multiple software systems.
Innovation Solution
A system-agnostic platform utilizing blockchain technology for decentralized record keeping, combined with low-code business application integration and AI/machine learning for automated integration and monitoring, allowing for the incorporation of APIs from multiple applications and enabling seamless data flow between systems without the need for intermediaries.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional software integration methods are used, then integration functionality is achieved, but technical expertise requirements and costs increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary integration platform that acts as a mediator between disparate software systems. This platform provides pre-built connectors and integration patterns, allowing organizations to achieve system integration without requiring deep technical expertise in each individual system's API and integration protocols.
Solution Approach 2:
The integration platform enables self-service integration capabilities through low-code or no-code interfaces, allowing business users to configure and deploy integrations independently without relying on specialized technical personnel for every integration task.
2Reliability
If specialized personnel are used for integration, then integration quality is maintained, but logistical and cost issues increase
Solution Approach 1:
The platform empowers business users with self-service integration capabilities through visual workflow designers and pre-configured integration templates, eliminating the need to schedule and coordinate specialized personnel for routine integration tasks while maintaining integration quality through built-in validation and best practices.
Solution Approach 2:
The integration platform performs preliminary actions by providing pre-built connectors, authentication mechanisms, and integration patterns for common systems, so that when integration is needed, the complex preparatory work has already been done, reducing the need for specialized personnel intervention.
3Reliability
If intermediaries are used for verification, then trust and security are ensured, but costs and transaction complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The integration platform provides universal authentication and verification mechanisms that work across multiple systems and transactions. By implementing security and trust verification at the platform level rather than requiring separate intermediaries for each transaction, the system reduces transaction complexity while maintaining security.
Solution Approach 2:
The platform acts as a trusted intermediary that centralizes verification and authentication functions. This single intermediary handles security for all integrations, reducing the need for multiple separate verification mechanisms and simplifying the overall transaction process while maintaining trust and security.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and systems for system agnostic technologies allowing incorporation of APIs from multiple applications as well as integration of APIs from other applications that can assist in the integrations. Methods and systems for using block chain technology to enhance integration record keeping on an application and macro integration level as well as event and performance recording and other advantages. Methods and systems for integrating services between different software systems including integrating a plurality of software systems to enable data transfer between the plurality of software systems, at least one of adding a new software system and updating, removing, or altering one of the plurality of software systems, and dynamically updating other ones of the plurality of software systems based on the at least one of adding the new software system and updating, removing, or altering one of the plurality of software systems.