Online Service Integration via Intermediary Session Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for integrating online services between two entities require significant effort for bi-directional synchronization of membership models or proxying sessions, which is undesirable due to technical and legal constraints, and complicates providing a consistently branded experience to users.
Innovation Solution
The system allows seamless integration of online service functionalities between two entities without synchronizing membership models or proxying sessions, enabling one entity to leverage another's services, such as credit reports, while maintaining user data confidentiality by generating session identifiers and using secure protocols like SSL for data transmission.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If two on-line service providers synchronize their membership models and user account data bi-directionally, then service integration is achieved, but the effort and complexity increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a third-party service entity as an intermediary that provides unified access to multiple service providers. This mediator handles the complexity of data synchronization and session management, allowing service providers to integrate services without directly synchronizing their own membership models. The intermediary absorbs the technical complexity while maintaining service integration capability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If one service entity proxies the session between the second service entity and the user, then service collaboration is enabled, but data security and legal compliance issues arise
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs a third-party intermediary that enables service collaboration without creating proxy relationships that compromise data security. The intermediary facilitates secure communication between service providers and users while maintaining data confidentiality and compliance with legal requirements, eliminating the harmful proxying approach.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces traditional proxy-based mechanical session management with a more sophisticated intermediary system that uses secure protocols and unified access mechanisms. This substitution eliminates the need for direct proxying while maintaining service collaboration capability and improving data security.
3Adaptability or versatility
If data is transmitted between service entities for service integration, then functionality is shared, but user data confidentiality is compromised
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a third-party intermediary that enables functionality sharing without direct data transmission between service entities. The intermediary acts as a secure gateway that allows service providers to access each other's services while maintaining user data confidentiality through controlled access and encryption mechanisms.
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AI summary
Methods, apparatuses and systems facilitating integration of the functionality associated with a first on-line service entity with the functionality associated with a second on-line service entity. Embodiments of the present invention allow a first on-line service entity having its own membership model to efficiently collaborate with a second on-line service entity to offer its users the services of the second on-line service entity in a seamless and consistently branded manner. One implementation obviates the need for synchronization of the membership models between the first and second on-line service entities. One implementation allows the second on-line service entity to provide services to the users associated with the first on-line service entity in a seamless manner without the first on-line service entity having to proxy the session between the second on-line service entity and the users.