Pluggable Payment Gateway Adapter for Cloud Platform Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cloud computing platforms often lack a native payment solution, requiring clients to integrate with multiple payment gateways with different APIs, leading to complexity and inconsistency in data models, making it difficult for clients to manage transactions and maintain records across various payment gateways.
Innovation Solution
A cloud computing platform with a payments platform that integrates payment gateway services, using a pluggable architecture to allow clients to select and integrate payment gateway adapters, providing a unified set of APIs for interacting with various payment gateways, and managing payment transactions through a multitenant database system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If clients integrate directly with multiple payment gateways using different APIs, then payment transaction functionality is achieved, but system complexity and integration difficulty increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a payment gateway adapter as an intermediary component that sits between the cloud computing platform and multiple payment gateways. This adapter provides a unified API interface that abstracts the complexities of different payment gateway protocols, allowing clients to interact with all payment gateways through a single standardized interface rather than integrating with each gateway directly
Solution Approach 2:
The payment gateway adapter is designed with universal functionality to support multiple payment gateway providers through a single implementation. It provides multi-functionality by handling various payment gateway protocols (synchronous and asynchronous) and data formats through one unified component, eliminating the need for separate integration code for each gateway
2Adaptability or versatility
If clients use different payment gateways with different data models, then payment functionality is achieved, but data consistency and record management become difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The payment gateway adapter acts as a data translation intermediary that receives data from various payment gateways with different data models and transforms it into a unified data structure. This ensures that regardless of which payment gateway is used, the cloud computing platform receives consistent, standardized data that can be uniformly processed and stored
Solution Approach 2:
The adapter enforces homogeneity by standardizing all payment gateway responses into a common data model. It normalizes different data formats, field names, and structures from various payment gateways into a uniform format, ensuring data consistency across all payment transactions regardless of the underlying gateway used
3Adaptability or versatility
If clients manually integrate and maintain multiple payment gateway connections, then payment processing is achieved, but maintenance burden and time consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The payment gateway adapter implements self-service capabilities by automatically adapting to different payment gateway protocols and data formats. It includes built-in logic to handle connection management, data transformation, and error handling without requiring manual intervention for each payment gateway integration, significantly reducing maintenance time
Solution Approach 2:
The adapter performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring integration logic for multiple payment gateways in advance. It includes pre-built adapters for various payment gateway providers that have already been configured and tested, allowing clients to simply select and use the appropriate adapter without performing time-consuming integration work at the time of deployment
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AI summary
A cloud-based computing system is provided that includes a payments platform for integrating synchronous payment gateway services with a cloud computing platform so that clients of the cloud computing platform can perform payment transactions with customers via the cloud computing platform. The synchronous payment gateways that include a particular synchronous payment gateway. The cloud computing platform can include a multitenant database system that provides applications and services to a plurality of clients, and a payments platform module. Each client can be, for example, a tenant or organization of the cloud computing platform that transacts business with one or more customers via a synchronous payment gateway. The payments platform module has a pluggable architecture for integrating payment gateway adapters with the cloud computing platform.