Mobile Collaboration Module for Peer-to-Peer Enterprise Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile technologies primarily extend the business-to-employee (B2E) domain, but face challenges in enabling collaboration across multiple B2E domains and leveraging employee-to-employee (E2E) interfaces for mobile applications, limiting their capabilities beyond traditional B2E scenarios.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that enable collaboration between mobile applications on different devices by establishing peer-to-peer connections using collaboration modules, which maintain connectivity to respective enterprise backends, allowing for employee-to-employee (E2E) interfaces while accessing business-to-employee (B2E) functionality, utilizing web services and security credentials for mutual discovery and component installation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If mobile applications operate in online mode with connections to enterprise backend services, then access to corporate resources and functionality is enabled, but collaboration between mobile devices across multiple B2E domains is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the collaboration architecture by introducing domain-specific collaboration servers that handle peer-to-peer connections within each B2E domain separately. This allows mobile devices to collaborate within their own domains while maintaining connections to enterprise backends, without requiring a single complex centralized architecture that would manage all cross-domain interactions.
Solution Approach 2:
Collaboration servers act as intermediaries between mobile devices and enterprise backends. These servers facilitate peer-to-peer connections between mobile devices while maintaining separate domain boundaries, enabling collaboration without direct access to other enterprise backends. The intermediary handles the complexity of cross-domain communication protocols and security credentials.
2Adaptability or versatility
If mobile applications establish peer-to-peer connections for collaboration, then employee-to-employee interfaces are enabled, but maintaining connectivity to respective enterprise backends becomes complex
Solution Approach 1:
The system separates connectivity management into distinct segments: peer-to-peer collaboration connections handled by collaboration servers, and enterprise backend connections maintained separately through existing mobile application infrastructure. This segmentation allows E2E interfaces to operate independently from B2E connectivity requirements.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile device is designed with multi-functionality to simultaneously support both peer-to-peer collaboration modes and traditional enterprise backend connections. The device can maintain multiple active connections - collaborating with peer devices while also accessing enterprise resources - without requiring separate dedicated hardware or software systems.
3Ease of operation
If mobile applications operate as stand-alone offline applications, then device independence is maintained, but access to enterprise functionality and collaboration with other devices is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The mobile application dynamically adapts its operational mode based on connection availability. Devices can operate independently in offline mode when no enterprise connection is available, maintaining full device independence. When enterprise backend connections are established, the application automatically enables collaboration features and enterprise functionality integration, transitioning to a connected collaborative mode.
Solution Approach 2:
The mobile application autonomously manages its own connection state and operational mode without requiring manual user configuration. The application automatically detects available connections (enterprise backend or peer devices), configures appropriate communication protocols, and switches between offline and collaborative modes as needed, providing both device independence and enterprise integration capability.
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AI summary
A mobile computer system hosts mobile application and a collaboration module. The collaboration module is adapted to enable the mobile application to communicate with a further mobile application, hosted on a further mobile computer system, and to access functionality of an enterprise application, hosted on an enterprise system.