Global User Routing Gateway for Geo-Compliant Access Control
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional centralized user centers struggle to comply with diverse geo-legal laws and regulations across different countries and regions, especially in cross-border e-commerce and payment systems, lacking unified access and storage solutions for sensitive user data.
Innovation Solution
A routing-policy-based global user compliance access method and apparatus that utilizes a unified user gateway, authentication unit, and global user center to ensure compliant data storage and access by generating a unique routing key value from user information, routing requests through global policies, and synchronizing data to a global user center.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a centralized user center is used, then access efficiency is improved, but compliance with geo-legal laws and regulations deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the centralized user center into multiple regional user centers (local user centers and remote user centers) distributed across different geographical locations. Each regional center handles user data according to local legal requirements, while the unified user gateway coordinates access across these segments to maintain global access efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified user gateway acts as an intermediary between users and regional user centers. It receives access requests, determines the appropriate regional center based on routing policies, and forwards requests to the correct center. This mediator enables compliant data access without requiring users to directly interact with multiple distributed centers.
2Reliability
If data is stored locally in each region, then compliance with local data policies is improved, but unified access control deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The unified user gateway provides universal access control functionality across all regional user centers. It implements authentication, authorization, and routing policies that apply uniformly regardless of which regional center handles the request, enabling consistent access control while respecting local data storage requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The system adds a routing policy dimension to the traditional user center architecture. Instead of only organizing data by region, it introduces routing keys and policies that operate at a higher abstraction level, enabling unified access control through global routing policies while maintaining local data storage compliance.
3Reliability
If global user center queries are performed for all users, then data compliance is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by establishing routing policies and generating routing keys in advance during user registration and data synchronization. When access requests are made, the unified user gateway uses these pre-configured routing policies to quickly determine the appropriate regional center without requiring complex real-time queries across all user centers.
Solution Approach 2:
The system changes parameters by using routing keys and policy-based routing instead of querying all user centers for every request. The routing policy transforms the access control mechanism from a comprehensive query approach to a targeted routing approach based on pre-computed routing parameters, reducing system complexity while maintaining compliance.
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AI summary
A routing-policy-based global user compliance access method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes steps of: initiating, by a user, a login request to a unified user gateway if there is a user login behavior; sending, by an authentication unit, an authenticated user request to a local user center for processing, and to the global user center for global query if the user is a non-local user; initiating, by the user, a business request to the unified user gateway if there is a user business operation behavior; routing the request to an application program interface after being passed by the authentication unit; sending, by the application program interface, the business request to the local user center for business processing, and to a global business center for routing policy query and redirecting to the remote user center to which the user belongs if the user is the non-local user.