Event Gateway Architecture for Cross-Region Regulatory Messaging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing network services struggle to efficiently coordinate transactions and value-added services across different regions while adhering to varying regulatory requirements, leading to limitations in the flow of personal information and compliance with on-soil regulations.
Innovation Solution
Implementing an event-driven architecture with event gateways that manage messaging and publish events across regions, utilizing event handlers, publishers, and secure access handlers to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and facilitate communication between different regions.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If traditional message driven architectures are used for coordinating transactions across regions, then communication between regions can be established, but the system complexity increases and regulatory compliance becomes difficult to manage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an event gateway as an intermediary component that sits between different regions and handles regulatory compliance. The event gateway receives events from one region, validates them against local regulatory requirements, and publishes them to the message bus in the destination region. This mediator approach allows each region to maintain its own regulatory rules without increasing overall system complexity, as the event gateway abstracts the compliance logic from the core transaction processing system.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is segmented into distinct functional components: event sources that generate events, event gateways that handle regulatory compliance, and a centralized message bus that distributes events. This segmentation allows each component to be optimized independently - event sources focus on data generation, event gateways focus on regulatory validation, and the message bus focuses on efficient distribution. The segmentation also enables scalable deployment across multiple regions without coupling the entire system together.
2Productivity
If physical endpoints are used in each region for service distribution, then direct communication is enabled, but the number of endpoints increases system complexity and maintenance burden
Solution Approach 1:
The message bus serves as a universal communication infrastructure that handles multiple functions: event distribution, regulatory validation, and region-specific messaging protocols. Instead of requiring separate physical endpoints for each function, the message bus provides a single unified interface that all regions can access. This multi-functional approach reduces the total number of endpoints needed while maintaining efficient transaction processing across all regions.
Solution Approach 2:
Rather than deploying physical endpoints in every region, the system uses virtual event gateways that can be instantiated as needed. These virtual gateways copy the necessary compliance logic and communication protocols without requiring physical infrastructure in each region. The event gateways can be dynamically deployed and configured based on actual transaction needs, reducing the footprint of physical endpoints while maintaining full functionality.
3Reliability
If strict on-soil regulations are enforced in each region, then data privacy is protected, but the flow of personal information is restricted
Solution Approach 1:
The event gateway implements local quality by enforcing region-specific regulatory requirements at the point of entry. Each event gateway is configured with the regulatory rules applicable to its host region, allowing it to validate incoming events against local compliance standards. This ensures that data privacy is maintained in each region while still allowing information flow between regions that comply with all applicable regulations. The local quality approach enables differentiated compliance handling for different regions without creating complete information silos.
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 identifying, by a first event gateway, an event directed to an application in a second region, which is different than a first region in which the first event gateway is located, and constructing, by the first event gateway, a HTTP request consistent with a regulatory domain specific to the second region. The method also includes transmitting, by the first event gateway, the HTTP request to a second event gateway in the second region and, based on the transmitted HTTP request, receiving, by the first event gateway, from the second event gateway, a response code.