Digital Certification Security Architecture for Shared Engineering Models
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing digital engineering tools face challenges in interoperability, require specialized skill sets, lack of shareable repositories for previous designs, and necessitate physical testing, leading to inefficiencies and increased costs in product development and certification.
Innovation Solution
An interconnected digital engineering and certification ecosystem with a centralized computing system that interfaces with various digital engineering tools via APIs, includes digitized regulatory standards, and provides a secure platform for seamless interoperability, data sharing, and machine learning, enabling digital certification without physical testing.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple digital engineering tools are integrated directly with one another, then interoperability between tools is improved, but the complexity and cost of integration increases significantly (N2 complexity)
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a digital model repository as an intermediary layer between digital engineering tools and certification systems. This repository uses standardized interfaces (such as SBIR - Standardized Binary Interchange Representation) to enable tools to exchange information without direct point-to-point integration, thereby reducing integration complexity from N2 to N relationships while maintaining interoperability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements universal standardized interfaces and common data models that allow different digital engineering tools to interact through a common language. This multi-functional approach enables a single interface standard to serve multiple tool combinations, eliminating the need for custom integration for each tool pair and reducing overall system complexity.
2Measurement precision
If digital engineering tools use specialized interfaces and APIs, then tool functionality and precision are improved, but the skillset required to operate them increases
Solution Approach 1:
The digital model repository acts as an intermediary that handles complex data exchanges using standardized formats. This shields users from the complexity of specialized interfaces while preserving the precision capabilities of individual tools, as the standardization layer manages the technical complexity transparently.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent uses digital twins and standardized digital model representations that capture the essential characteristics of physical systems. These standardized copies can be exchanged and manipulated through simpler interfaces while maintaining the fidelity and precision needed for engineering analysis and certification.
3Productivity
If digital models are shared across the ecosystem, then collaboration and reduction of duplication are improved, but security and intellectual property protection become more challenging
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements selective sharing of digital models through standardized representations and digital twins. Instead of sharing complete proprietary models, the system shares standardized copies or subsets of data that are sufficient for collaboration purposes while preserving the security and intellectual property of the original models through controlled access and standardized interfaces.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for securely certifying products in an ecosystem. In some implementations, a digital platform receives a user request to access digital models. The digital platform determines whether the user is authorized to access the digital models. In response, the digital platform generates a transaction request to send to a location of the digital models, wherein the transaction request comprises data identifying operations to perform using the digital models. The digital platform transmits, to the location of the digital models, the generated transaction request that causes execution of the operations. The digital platform receives data representative of a result of the operations performed. The digital platform provides, to a user interface of the user device, the data representative of the result. The digital platform audits the data related to the transaction request and the data representative of the result.