Generic API for Flexible Order Structure Configuration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing communication platforms for value-added chains are inflexible and require significant development efforts to modify or expand order structures, leading to inefficiencies in digital data exchange across company boundaries, and users must constantly switch between systems when changing service providers or customers.
Innovation Solution
A cross-company, system-independent communication platform with a generic application programming interface (API) that allows flexible configuration of order structures, real-time status information access, and authorization management, enabling seamless collaboration across multiple company boundaries through modular design and dynamic order management.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Stability of the object's composition
If order structures are hard-coded or permanently embedded in program code, then system stability is improved, but adaptability deteriorates as modification or expansion requires significant development effort
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic order structures that can be configured and modified at runtime without requiring system downtime or extensive development work. The order structures are no longer static and hard-coded, but can be adapted to changing business requirements while maintaining system stability through controlled configuration mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the order structure into configurable components that can be independently modified. This allows specific parts of the order structure to be changed without affecting the entire system, enabling flexible adaptation while maintaining overall system stability through modular configuration.
2Ease of operation
If cloud-based solutions with centralized control are used, then ease of operation is improved, but adaptability deteriorates as users must constantly switch between different systems when changing service providers
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a universal communication platform that can work with multiple different service providers and customers through standardized interfaces. The system maintains centralized control for ease of operation while being adaptable to different partners through configurable connection mechanisms that don't require system switching.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary communication layer between users and various service providers. This intermediary platform handles the complexity of multiple provider integrations, allowing users to operate easily while the system adapts to different providers behind the scenes without requiring user intervention or system switching.
3Device complexity
If isolated cloud-based applications are used, then device complexity is reduced, but productivity deteriorates due to constant switching between systems and lack of seamless collaboration
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple isolated cloud-based applications into a single integrated communication platform. This combines the simplicity of individual applications with the productivity benefits of seamless collaboration, allowing users to work across different service providers and customers within one system without constant switching.
Data Source
AI summary
A communication platform exchanges digital data within a value added chain by at least one order. Each individual order corresponds to a collaborative process and has an order structure. The collaborative process and order structure digital data are usable in communication platform modules. The communication platform also has an order structure module configuring at least one such order structure and allocating to one or more user groups for each order structure authorization to generate and/or accept such order; a client module generating, providing or releasing at least one such order, or allocating at least one user group ID to the order(s); a contractor module confirming, declining, or accepting such order and adapting the order status information; and a generic application programming interface connecting the communication platform modules such that order structure digital data is usable in all modules, and any order structure orders can be interconnected.