Event-Driven Network Services via Regional Validation Gateways
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing network services face challenges in coordinating cross-regional communications while adhering to varying regulatory requirements, leading to limitations in the flow of personal information and service availability across different geographical regions.
Innovation Solution
Implementing an event-driven architecture with event gateways that manage messaging between regions, utilizing event gateways to coordinate events and account for regulatory requirements, thereby facilitating distributed services without direct interaction with physical endpoints.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If message driven architecture is used for cross-regional communications, then service coordination between regions is enabled, but regulatory compliance becomes complex and service availability is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces event gateways as intermediary components that sit between different regulatory domains. These gateways receive events from one region, validate them against local regulations, and forward compliant events to other regions. This intermediary layer abstracts the regulatory compliance complexity from the core messaging infrastructure, enabling services to operate across regions without directly handling regulatory variations.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the network architecture into distinct regional domains, each with its own event gateway and regulatory validation layer. This segmentation allows each region to independently manage its regulatory requirements while maintaining standardized event-driven communication patterns. The segmentation isolates regulatory complexity to specific segments rather than propagating it system-wide.
2Productivity
If direct messaging between regions is implemented, then communication efficiency is high, but regulatory requirements cannot be properly enforced
Solution Approach 1:
Event gateways serve as mandatory intermediaries in the messaging path between regions. Rather than allowing direct peer-to-peer messaging, all cross-regional communication must pass through the gateway, which performs regulatory validation. This maintains communication efficiency by using standardized event formats while ensuring reliability through enforced compliance checks at the gateway layer.
Solution Approach 2:
The system performs preliminary regulatory validation at the event gateway before messages are routed to destination regions. By checking compliance upfront in the messaging pipeline, the system prevents non-compliant messages from being transmitted, ensuring regulatory requirements are met without requiring complex post-delivery verification or manual intervention.
3Adaptability or versatility
If event gateways are introduced to manage regulatory compliance, then service delivery across regions is enabled, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
Event gateways are designed as universal components that handle multiple functions: event reception, regulatory validation, event transformation, and forwarding to multiple destination regions. This multi-functionality consolidates what could be multiple separate systems into a single versatile component, reducing overall system complexity while enabling cross-regional service delivery.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent adds a new dimensional layer to the messaging architecture by introducing event gateways that operate at the boundary between regions. Rather than trying to make existing messaging components multi-regional, the solution adds a gateway dimension that specifically handles cross-regional concerns, leaving core messaging logic unchanged and simpler.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and methods are provided for use in providing messaging among different regions, via a distributed event drive architecture. One exemplary method includes receiving, at an event gateway in a region, a network message from a different event gateway in a different region, via a persistent connection between the event gateway and the different event gateway, and validating, by the event gateway, the network message based on at least a certificate associated with the network message. The method also includes, in response to validation of the network message, converting, by the event gateway, the network message to an event and publishing, by the event gateway, the event to the message bus, thereby providing the event associated with the network message to a service to which the network request is directed.