Secure Cloud Integration via Dedicated Setup Endpoints
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Solution Overview
Problem
The integration of complex cloud software applications with other applications in a suite is typically cumbersome and insecure, requiring significant manual effort and lacking robust security measures, especially when accessing cloud-based software via URLs.
Innovation Solution
Providing a dedicated Integration Setup URL/Endpoint derived from the base URL, with optional Integration Setup UI, and utilizing cryptographically secured customer identification and business type information to ensure secure integration, allowing double confirmation from administrators to prevent accidental connections and ensure compliance.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If free access to dedicated URL information is granted for cloud software applications, then ease of operation is improved, but security deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an integration setup mechanism with dedicated URLs and cryptographic verification as an intermediary layer between direct URL access and system integration. This mediator verifies system properties and establishes secure connections without exposing base URLs, thus maintaining both ease of operation and security.
2Manufacturing precision
If manual integration effort is applied for each application, then integration precision is improved, but productivity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal integration setup mechanism that can be applied across multiple cloud software applications through a standardized process. The integration setup URL and verification framework provide multi-functional capabilities that work across different applications, reducing repetitive manual effort while maintaining integration accuracy through systematic property verification.
3Reliability
If cryptographic verification is implemented for customer identification, then security is improved, but device complexity deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the cryptographic verification process into a separate, dedicated integration setup mechanism. By isolating the complex security verification from the base application functionality and implementing it through a specialized integration URL endpoint, the system maintains high security while preventing cryptographic complexity from overwhelming the core application logic.
4Reliability
If double confirmation is required for integration activation, then security is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-configuring integration setup URLs and establishing verification frameworks before actual integration occurs. The system prepares security protocols, property verification mechanisms, and confirmation workflows in advance, so that when integration is activated, the double confirmation process follows a predetermined, streamlined path that maintains security without excessive operational burden.
Data Source
AI summary
Different cloud software applications may be efficiently integrated in a secure manner, by providing each system with a dedicated Integration Setup URL/Endpoint. This endpoint can be derived from the base URL together with an Integration Setup User Interface (UI). Security is afforded through verification of certain properties. Cryptographically secured customer identification (via public key certificates) can ensure that customer A does not connect to systems of customer B. Also, business type information or landscape/zone can be referenced assign a tenant to a software variant (development, test, production). This prevents, e.g., a development system of type A from accidentally being connected to a production system of type B. Integration setup may be triggered per an integration scenario from one of the two affected endpoints, or from a separate (e.g., central) system. The configuration may be written on both sides with reasonable defaults, with the double confirmation ensuring compliance and security.