Network Appliance Mediator for Secure Intranet Service Delivery
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Solution Overview
Problem
Large companies are inefficiently developing their own software to provide internal services similar to those offered by internet service providers, due to concerns about privacy and competitive advantage, which prevents them from benefiting from high-quality services at reduced costs.
Innovation Solution
A network appliance system comprising a security assessor and a service provider unit that identifies entity rights, content, and interests within a private network, allowing for the provision of services while maintaining confidentiality and competitive advantage, without external internet access.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If large companies write and install their own software to provide internal services, then privacy and competitive advantage are maintained, but service quality and development efficiency deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a network appliance as an intermediary device between the company's internal network and external internet services. This appliance acts as a mediator that allows internet service providers to deliver services to the company's intranet without direct access to the internal network, thus maintaining privacy and competitive advantage while enabling access to high-quality services. The appliance handles authentication, authorization, and service routing functions.
2Reliability
If large companies write and install their own software to provide internal services, then privacy is maintained, but service quality deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The network appliance serves as a controlled intermediary that enables internet service providers to deliver high-quality services to the company's intranet while maintaining privacy boundaries. The appliance ensures that services are delivered through secure channels with proper authentication and authorization, maintaining both privacy and service quality.
Solution Approach 2:
The network appliance provides multiple functions including service gateway, authentication server, authorization server, and service routing capabilities. This multi-functional device can support various internet services (search, social networking, content delivery) while maintaining privacy and security, thereby improving service quality without compromising privacy.
3Productivity
If internet service providers provide services to large companies internally, then service quality improves and cost reduces, but privacy and competitive advantage concerns arise
Solution Approach 1:
The network appliance is positioned as a secure intermediary between internet service providers and the company's internal network. It enables efficient service delivery by routing requests through controlled channels while maintaining security boundaries that protect privacy and competitive advantage information from external access.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent extracts sensitive internal network information from direct exposure to external service providers. The network appliance handles service routing and authentication separately from the internal network core, allowing service delivery functionality to be extracted and implemented externally while keeping sensitive data within the secured intranet environment.
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AI summary
System, method, and device for providing services on a network. The device comprises a security assessor and a service provider unit. The security assessor is connected to the network and is configured to identify rights of an entity on the network. The service provider unit is connected to the network and the security assessor. The service provider unit comprises a discovery unit, an interaction unit, and an interest unit. The discovery unit identifies content available on the network. The interaction unit identifies interactions of the entity on the network. The interest unit identifies interests of the entity based on the identified interactions and the identified content. The service provider unit provides services to the entity on the network, based on the rights of the entity, and at least one of the identified content and the identified interests of the entity.