Portal Interface Credential Routing for Service Infrastructure
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Solution Overview
Problem
Large entities face challenges in providing seamless access to services across multiple data systems while maintaining configuration control and security, especially when service provider systems undergo modifications, leading to issues with invalid query addresses and authentication.
Innovation Solution
A portal interface with routing, validation, and credential generation modules that validate user entities, generate secure credentials, and route service requests, ensuring seamless access and security through encryption and decryption services, even with system modifications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a portal interface with validation and credential generation modules is implemented, then security and configuration control are improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a portal interface as an intermediary component between users and service provider systems. This portal includes validation modules that verify user credentials and generate session tokens, acting as a mediator that handles authentication and routing without requiring direct access to backend systems. This resolves the contradiction by centralizing security functions in a controlled interface layer.
Solution Approach 2:
The system is segmented into distinct functional modules: a portal interface layer for authentication, a validation module for credential verification, a credential generation module for token creation, and backend service modules. This segmentation allows security functions to be isolated and managed independently, improving security while making the overall system complexity more manageable through modular architecture.
2Adaptability or versatility
If service provider systems are modified, then adaptability is improved, but reliability of user access deteriorates due to invalid query addresses
Solution Approach 1:
The portal interface performs preliminary validation of user credentials and generates session tokens before users attempt to access service provider systems. By pre-validating authentication and creating standardized access tokens, the system prepares for potential backend modifications without affecting user access. The validated credentials and session tokens remain valid even when backend systems are modified, ensuring continuous user access reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system cushions against future modifications by implementing a portal interface that abstracts user authentication from backend system specifics. The validation module and credential generation module create a buffer layer that protects user access from backend changes. When service provider systems are modified, the portal interface continues to function with existing validated credentials, preventing access disruptions.
3Adaptability or versatility
If multiple data systems are used to allow customer access, then service versatility is improved, but difficulty of detecting and measuring authentication issues increases
Solution Approach 1:
The portal interface implements feedback mechanisms through standardized logging and validation responses. When users authenticate through the portal, the validation module generates standardized logs and session tokens that provide feedback about authentication status. This standardized feedback system makes it easier to detect and measure authentication issues across multiple data systems, as all authentication events are recorded in a consistent format that can be monitored and analyzed centrally.
Data Source
AI summary
An example method includes receiving a query comprising a first identifier of a first entity at a portal interface controlled by a second entity. The first entity is validated based on the first identifier to generate a validated first entity. A first credential is generated based on the validated first entity and a second identifier generated by the second entity for the first entity. The first credential is sent to the first entity. Service request data is sent to the first entity. An order request associated with the service request data and a second credential is received at the portal interface. Responsive to validating that the second credential matches the first credential, an order response corresponding to the order request is sent.