Message-Based Interface System for Credit Portfolio Data

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current business interfaces are not consistent across industries and businesses, leading to difficulties in exchanging information due to differences in programming, semantics, and formatting, requiring human intervention and lacking standardization.

Innovation Solution

A message-based interface system that utilizes a business object model to generate consistent interfaces for performing credit portfolio model services, credit portfolio analytical results, credit portfolio management, financial instrument exposure profiles, and material supply and demand allocation, enabling seamless communication across heterogeneous applications.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If heterogeneous business entities use their own proprietary interfaces and semantics, then each business entity can maintain its own programming standards and data formats, but information exchange between different business entities becomes difficult and requires human intervention

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveAbility of each business entity to maintain its own programming standardsVSAvoidDifficulty of information exchange between business entities
Core Design Contradiction:
Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a message-oriented middleware system that acts as an intermediary between heterogeneous business entities. This middleware provides standardized message formats, routing capabilities, and protocol translation, allowing businesses to maintain their own interfaces while enabling automated information exchange through the mediating layer.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a universal message-based interface system that can handle multiple types of business transactions and communications across different industries and business entities. The standardized message formats and protocols enable a single system to serve multiple functions and accommodate diverse business requirements without requiring human intervention.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Ease of manufacture

If businesses use different semantics and data formats, then each business entity can optimize its own programs for specific purposes, but standardization and automated information exchange are lacking

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveAbility to create specialized programs for different business purposesVSAvoidLack of standardization in information exchange
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of manufactureVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the information exchange system into standardized message components and protocols while allowing business-specific logic to remain in separate application layers. This segmentation enables specialized programs to maintain their unique functionality while communicating through standardized message formats, ensuring reliability and automatability.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent transforms business-specific data formats and semantics into standardized message parameters through protocol translation and data mapping. This parameter transformation allows specialized business programs to communicate reliably using standardized formats while preserving the original business logic and data meaning.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

3Ease of operation

If human interaction is required to facilitate transactions between heterogeneous businesses, then information exchange can be customized and adapted, but transaction efficiency and automation are reduced

Engineering Contradiction:
ImproveAbility to customize information exchangeVSAvoidTransaction efficiency and automation level
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements self-service capabilities through automated message routing, formatting, and translation. The system automatically handles information exchange between business entities without requiring human intervention, while still allowing customization of message formats and protocols to meet specific business requirements.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

Solution Approach 2:

The patent creates a dynamic message-based interface system that can automatically adapt to different business requirements through configurable protocols and formats. The system dynamically adjusts message structures and routing based on the specific transaction type and business entities involved, enabling both customization and automation.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

Data Source

PatentUS8671041B2Managing consistent interfaces for credit portfolio business objects across heterogeneous systems
Publication Date: 2014.03.11 SAP SE
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AI summary

A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to a credit portfolio model, a credit portfolio analytical result, a credit portfolio management process control, a financial instrument exposure profile analytical result, and/or a material supply and demand allocation business object.