Message-Based Interface for Heterogeneous Business Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current interfaces for exchanging business information across different business entities are inconsistent due to varying semantics, formatting, and industry-specific standards, leading to difficulties in facilitating seamless transactions between heterogeneous systems.
Innovation Solution
A message-based interface is generated from a common business object model, enabling consistent semantics and hierarchical organization of messages to facilitate communication across heterogeneous applications, using a service registry to expose services and process messages according to the business object model.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of manufacture
If different business entities use their own proprietary programs and semantics for handling transactions, then each business entity can optimize its internal processes, but information exchange between heterogeneous systems becomes difficult and requires human interaction
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a message-based interface as an intermediary layer between heterogeneous business systems. This interface uses standardized message packages with consistent semantics to mediate information exchange, allowing internal programs to remain optimized while enabling automated communication between different business entities without human intervention
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal message-based interface that can handle multiple types of business transactions across different industries and business entities. The standardized message packages serve multiple functions by providing a common language for information exchange while accommodating diverse business requirements through configurable message structures
2Adaptability or versatility
If existing standards are used for information exchange, then some level of standardization is achieved, but the interfaces remain inconsistent across different industries and even within individual standards
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the information exchange system into standardized message packages with defined structures and semantics. Each message package is divided into specific components (header, body, footer) with consistent formatting rules, enabling both industry-specific customization through configurable content and overall interface consistency through standardized structure
Solution Approach 2:
The patent enables parameter changes within the standardized message framework to accommodate different industries and business requirements. Message packages can be configured with specific parameters and semantics appropriate for particular industries while maintaining the overall standardized structure, allowing adaptability without sacrificing consistency
3Ease of operation
If human interaction is used to facilitate transactions between heterogeneous systems, then information exchange can occur, but transaction processing time and complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements self-service automated transaction processing through message-based interfaces. Heterogeneous systems can autonomously exchange information using standardized message packages without requiring human intermediaries to facilitate transactions, significantly reducing processing time and enabling systems to service themselves through automated communication protocols
Data Source
AI summary
A business object model, which reflects data that is used during a given business transaction, is utilized to generate interfaces. This business object model facilitates commercial transactions by providing consistent interfaces that are suitable for use across industries, across businesses, and across different departments within a business during a business transaction. In some operations, software creates, updates, or otherwise processes information related to an export declaration and/or an export declaration request business object.