Bidirectional Resource Verification for Real-Time Protection Status Checks
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing resource protection systems lack an efficient method to verify resource protection policies in real-time, leading to process pauses and delays when initiating processes that depend on protected resources.
Innovation Solution
A cloud-based verification server stores data subsets from multiple resource protection systems, allowing real-time verification by querying a local database for resource protection policies, and optionally retrieving full data sets through tailored APIs, ensuring uninterrupted process execution.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If real-time verification of resource protection policies is implemented by querying multiple resource protection systems, then verification accuracy and reliability are improved, but system response time and processing delay increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-establishing and maintaining a local database of resource protection policy information. This database is updated in advance through periodic synchronization with resource protection systems, so that when verification is needed, the information is already available locally without requiring real-time queries to external systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention introduces an intermediary system (the verification server with local database) that mediates between the processes needing verification and the resource protection systems. This intermediary maintains cached information locally, allowing verification to occur without direct real-time communication with the resource protection systems, thus reducing latency while maintaining verification reliability.
2Reliability
If processes pause to verify resource protection policies before continuing, then resource protection reliability is ensured, but process execution speed and productivity decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs the verification preparation in advance by maintaining an updated local database of resource protection policy information. This preliminary action eliminates the need for processes to pause and query external systems in real-time, as the verification information is already cached locally when needed.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention creates a copy of the resource protection policy information in a local database at the verification server. This copy allows processes to access verification information locally without contacting the original resource protection systems, enabling continuous process execution while maintaining verification reliability.
3Productivity
If a centralized system stores and verifies resource protection information from multiple systems, then verification efficiency and speed are improved, but system complexity and infrastructure requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The invention introduces an intermediary verification server that sits between client processes and resource protection systems. This intermediary handles the complexity of collecting, storing, and managing verification information from multiple resource protection systems, shielding the client processes from the underlying system complexity while providing fast local verification.
Solution Approach 2:
The system segments the verification function by separating it from the resource protection systems themselves. The verification server maintains its own independent local database, creating a modular architecture where verification is a distinct function that can be optimized independently from the resource protection mechanisms.
4Reliability
If resource protection verification is performed synchronously before process continuation, then protection policy compliance is ensured, but process throughput and efficiency decrease
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs compliance verification preparation in advance by maintaining an updated local database. When a process needs to continue, the verification can be performed synchronously and quickly using pre-fetched information, ensuring compliance without requiring lengthy synchronous waits for external system responses.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention enables continuous verification by maintaining locally cached information that allows verification to proceed without interrupting the continuous flow of process execution. The verification server can provide rapid responses from its local database, maintaining the continuity of both verification and process execution.
Data Source
AI summary
A method of verifying resource protection statuses for resources for address-based resources may include receiving a request for verification of resource protection from a client device for an address-based resource. The request includes an address of a resource. The intermediate system is programmed to receive resource protection verification requests from a plurality of client devices, and to receive resource protection verifications from a plurality of resource protection systems that are in communication with the intermediate system. The method also includes determining that none of the resource protection systems in the plurality of resource protection systems currently protect the resource; retrieving information that is securely stored for the resource and a user associated with the request; and sending the information to one or more of the plurality of resource protection systems as a request to protect the resource.