Heterogeneous Cloud Controller Mediator for Interoperability
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Solution Overview
Problem
The rapid deployment of cloud services has led to disjoint communication interfaces among service providers, requiring each provider to use unique function calls and schemas, which hinders interoperability and necessitates significant redesign to achieve unified communication.
Innovation Solution
A unified framework is established using heterogeneous cloud controllers to communicatively couple service providers to a publisher-subscriber queue, enabling communication through a global language, where each cloud controller acts as a bridge between local service provider languages and a common global language, allowing entities to interact with the queue without needing specific service provider APIs.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If service providers use their own unique communication interfaces and schemas, then each provider maintains autonomy and independence, but interoperability between providers deteriorates and communication complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a mediator component that translates between service provider-specific schemas and a unified communication schema. This mediator acts as an intermediary layer that receives messages in various provider-specific formats, converts them to the unified schema for processing, and then converts responses back to the appropriate provider-specific formats, thereby maintaining provider autonomy while enabling interoperability
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal communication schema that can handle multiple service provider interfaces through a single unified structure. This universal schema serves as a multi-functional interface that accommodates different provider-specific schemas through translation, allowing a single communication framework to work with diverse service providers without requiring separate interfaces for each
2Ease of operation
If a common language is mandated for all service providers, then communication interoperability is improved, but system redesign effort and cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent performs the schema translation setup in advance by defining mapping relationships between service provider-specific schemas and the unified schema during system initialization. This preliminary action creates translation tables and configuration data that enable automatic translation during runtime, avoiding the need for real-time redesign or manual intervention when new providers are added
3Ease of manufacture
If service providers maintain disjoint communication interfaces, then implementation simplicity for each provider is maintained, but client complexity increases due to needing multiple provider-specific APIs
Solution Approach 1:
The mediator component shields clients from provider-specific interface complexities by providing a unified translation layer. Clients interact only with the standardized unified schema through the mediator, which handles all the complexity of translating to and from various provider-specific formats, thereby simplifying client-side implementation while maintaining provider implementation simplicity
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AI summary
Heterogeneous cloud controllers are employed to communicatively couple a plurality of service providers to a publisher-subscriber queue. The heterogeneous cloud controllers may provide a unified communication framework for clients to communicate with the service providers, as well as for the service providers to communicate with one another. A global language may be established by the heterogeneous cloud controller, and a mapping may be created between the global language and the local language of each of the service providers. Each of the heterogeneous cloud controllers may form a bridge between the global language employed at the publisher-subscriber queue and the local language employed at a corresponding service provider.