Management Server for Multi-Service Print Order Processing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional systems for custom merchandise ordering, such as photo albums, are limited to supporting only one online store service within the same network, failing to accommodate multiple order acceptance services.
Innovation Solution
A management server capable of communicating with multiple service providing systems to process orders for various online store services, featuring a first reception unit for receiving data from client terminals, a first transmission unit for accessing corresponding service providing systems, a second reception unit for receiving requests from these systems, and a second transmission unit for transmitting data accordingly.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a management service and order acceptance service are constructed as one system in the same network, then the system structure is simple, but the system can support only one order acceptance service
Solution Approach 1:
The patent divides the system into two independent parts: a management service that handles data storage and management, and separate order acceptance services that handle ordering. The management service communicates with multiple order acceptance services through standardized interfaces, allowing the system to support multiple services without increasing structural complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The management service is designed with universal functionality to communicate with multiple different order acceptance services through a standardized interface. This allows a single management service to serve multiple online store services, enhancing system versatility without requiring separate management services for each order acceptance service.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the management service supports multiple online store services, then service versatility is improved, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a standardized communication interface as an intermediary between the management service and multiple order acceptance services. This intermediary layer abstracts the complexity of interacting with different services, allowing the management service to support multiple online store services without increasing its internal structural complexity.
Data Source
AI summary
A system includes a client terminal capable of ordering merchandise of an online store service from a service providing system of a plurality of service providing systems and process an order of merchandise of the online store service, and an information processing apparatus capable of communicating with the client terminal. The information processing apparatus receives data created by the client terminal using a predetermined application and used to order the merchandise of the online store service, transmits access information used to make the client terminal access a service providing system, of the plurality of service providing systems, corresponding to the predetermined application, and receives a request of the received data from the service providing system that has accepted access based on the transmitted access information. Data received by the first reception unit is transmitted to the service providing system that has transmitted the request.