Cloud Service API Framework for Unified Topology Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing APIs for cloud services lack definition based on service models and topologies, hindering timely execution of service management functions and degrading system performance by failing to provide a unified interface for ordering, monitoring, and modifying services on-demand.
Innovation Solution
A device configured with a set of APIs that includes subsets for various use cases, enabling connections to cloud environments through simplified and detailed topologies, allowing for service configuration, monitoring, and modification on demand, including connectivity types such as volume and bandwidth connectivity, and overlay components like mesh networks.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If existing APIs are used for cloud services, then basic service access is provided, but service management functions cannot be executed timely and system performance degrades due to lack of unified interface
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the cloud service management system into multiple specialized API subsets, each dedicated to specific service management functions (ordering, monitoring, modifying). This segmentation allows each API subset to be optimized for its specific purpose, enabling timely execution of service management functions while maintaining overall system coherence through the unified interface framework.
2Ease of operation
If multiple separate interfaces are used for service management, then comprehensive service control is possible, but system performance degrades and operation becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal API interface framework that can handle multiple service management functions (ordering, monitoring, modifying) through a consistent structure. This universal interface reduces operational complexity by providing a unified access point while maintaining the capability to perform diverse service management tasks through standardized mechanisms.
3Reliability
If detailed topology connections are implemented, then service connectivity is improved, but API structure complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary API layer that manages detailed topology connections between cloud services and client devices. This intermediary structure handles the complexity of mesh networks, volume connectivity, and bandwidth connectivity configurations, thereby improving service connectivity reliability while shielding users from the underlying structural complexity through standardized access interfaces.
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AI summary
In some implementations, a device may identify a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) associated with a type of cloud service. The device may identify a set of APIs associated with a connectivity type. The device may identify a set of APIs associated with overlay components. The device may connect to one or more entities associated with a cloud service based on the set of APIs associated with the type of cloud service, the set of APIs associated with the connectivity type, and the set of APIs associated with the overlay components.