Multipurpose Messaging Queue for Digital Identity Document Routing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current digital identity document management systems face challenges in scalability, security, and ease of use, particularly in inter-server communication for generating and delivering digital identity documents, as they often require exposing the location of issuer servers to cloud service providers, increasing liability and vulnerability.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a multipurpose messaging queue (MPMQ) as a cloud service that categorizes requests as standard or critical, routing them through separate queues, and ensuring that only internal requests can access document generator servers, thereby maintaining issuer server anonymity and limiting access to private information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If cloud-based services are used for digital identity document generation, then scalability and ease of use are improved, but security and liability increase due to exposed server locations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a message queue as an intermediary component between the cloud service provider and the issuer's document generator server. The cloud service provider sends requests through the message queue without directly accessing or knowing the server location, while the server receives and processes messages asynchronously. This mediator architecture enables cloud-based scalability while protecting the server's network location and reducing security exposure.
2Ease of operation
If direct cloud service access is implemented, then ease of use is improved, but liability and vulnerability increase
Solution Approach 1:
The message queue serves as a protective intermediary that decouples the cloud service provider from direct access to the issuer's internal systems. The provider can easily submit requests through the queue without needing to know internal server configurations, while the queue isolates the provider from liability regarding data security and system reliability within the issuer's infrastructure.
3Device complexity
If server locations are exposed to cloud service providers, then inter-server communication is simplified, but security and control over private information are reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The message queue acts as an intermediary communication channel that eliminates the need for the cloud service provider to know or access the issuer's server locations. Requests are transmitted through the queue without exposing internal network infrastructure, maintaining security while enabling seamless communication between external providers and internal systems.
4Productivity
If multiple digital identity documents are generated across distributed systems, then productivity and scalability are improved, but coordination and communication complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The message queue provides a standardized intermediary interface for coordinating digital identity document generation across multiple distributed systems. Different components (device information servers, credential servers, document generator servers) can independently process and communicate through the queue without direct point-to-point connections, reducing communication complexity while enabling high throughput and scalability.
Data Source
AI summary
An approach is provided for managing requests by a cloud-based multipurpose messaging queue (MPMQ) located in a first computer. For each given request in requests received by the MPMQ, the MPMQ receives a specification of whether the given request is a standard or a critical request based on whether the given request requires an action by a second computer of a third party to respond to the given request. On condition that the received specification indicates that the given request is the critical request, a first message is added to a critical message queue to be accessed by the second computer, with the first message including response information helpful to the second computer in responding to the given request corresponding to the first message. On condition that the received specification indicates that the given request is the standard request, a first message is added to a standard message queue.