Cloud Bridge API Integration for Multi-Cloud Bridging
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Solution Overview
Problem
The integration of distributed enterprise application architectures across datacenters and clouds is complex due to diverse architectures and technologies, particularly in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environments, lacking standardization and requiring intricate configuration and management.
Innovation Solution
A cloud bridge solution using multi-level API integration and a virtualized intermediary device to establish a secure IP layer tunnel and network bridge, simplifying configuration through user-friendly interfaces and server-side PHP layer interactions, enabling easy distribution and access across datacenters and clouds, abstracting user knowledge of underlying architectures.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If manual configuration methods are used for cloud bridging, then integration capability can be achieved, but configuration complexity and time consumption increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary device that acts as a mediator between the user and the complex cloud bridging configuration. This intermediary automatically performs configuration tasks, translating simple user actions into complex backend operations involving multiple API calls and coordination between different cloud infrastructure components, thereby resolving the contradiction between integration capability and configuration complexity
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements self-service automation where the intermediary device autonomously configures cloud bridges by automatically invoking APIs, establishing connections, and managing resource allocation without requiring manual intervention for each configuration step, thus maintaining high adaptability while reducing configuration complexity
2Adaptability or versatility
If comprehensive configuration options are provided for cloud bridging, then integration flexibility improves, but ease of operation deteriorates due to required user knowledge
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the configuration process into distinct functional layers: a simplified user interface layer that captures high-level requirements, and an automated intermediary layer that handles detailed configuration tasks. This segmentation allows the system to provide comprehensive integration flexibility through multiple configuration options while maintaining ease of operation by abstracting technical complexities from the user
Solution Approach 2:
The intermediary device serves as a mediator that translates diverse user requirements into appropriate configuration parameters for different cloud platforms. It automatically selects and applies the correct configuration options based on the detected cloud environment, thereby providing integration flexibility without requiring users to possess specialized knowledge of underlying infrastructure differences
3Productivity
If standardized bridging solutions are implemented, then deployment speed increases, but adaptability to diverse cloud architectures decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic standardized solution where the intermediary device maintains a core standardized bridging framework for rapid deployment, but automatically adapts its configuration parameters and behavior based on the detected cloud architecture type. This dynamic adaptation allows the system to deploy quickly using standardized processes while simultaneously adjusting to accommodate diverse cloud platform specificities
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs parameter changes to resolve the contradiction by maintaining a standardized bridging methodology with configurable parameters. The intermediary automatically modifies specific configuration parameters based on the target cloud architecture, enabling fast standardized deployment that adapts to diverse architectures through parameter adjustment rather than structural redesign
4Reliability
If detailed monitoring capabilities are added to cloud bridging, then system control improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges monitoring functions with the existing intermediary device, combining bridge establishment, configuration management, and health monitoring into a single integrated system. This consolidation improves reliability through comprehensive monitoring while avoiding the complexity increase that would result from adding separate monitoring infrastructure, as the intermediary leverages its existing position in the architecture to perform monitoring duties
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AI summary
The present disclosure is directed to multi-level application programming interface (API) integration of a distributed enterprise application architecture deployed across datacenter/private cloud and public cloud, such as end-to-end configuration of bridging two virtual or physical datacenters via a cloud bridge using simple/user-friendly configuration interfaces and API calls. Seamless integration of infrastructure from various providers with proprietary APIs can be achieved, without requiring user intervention or reconfiguration. Accordingly, the solution masks the inherent complexity and architectural expertise required to effectively use the cloud bridging solution with the various Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) architectures and technologies.