Service Integration Platform for ISP Aggregation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current single ISP open models are inconvenient for small ISPs and ISVs to participate in utilizing Internet resources, as they lack brand recognition, technical strength, and client resources, and face challenges with security, accounting, and monitoring, which hinder the integration of services from multiple ISPs and increase development barriers for ISVs.
Innovation Solution
A service integration platform system that integrates services from various ISPs, providing a unified framework for security, accounting, monitoring, and routing, with modules for authentication, recording, task management, and accounting, allowing ISVs to access and integrate services efficiently and securely.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If a single ISP provides complete service releases including security, accounting and monitoring, then service integration is simplified for that ISP, but small ISPs and ISVs face high barriers to participation due to lack of brand recognition, technical strength, and client resources
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the service integration system into multiple independent integration platforms, each serving different ISPs. This allows small ISPs and ISVs to participate in specific platforms without needing to meet the high requirements of a single monolithic platform, thereby improving accessibility while maintaining service integration efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces integration platforms as intermediary entities between ISPs and service consumers. These platforms provide standardized interfaces and handle complex integration tasks, allowing small ISPs and ISVs to participate without direct engagement in complex security, accounting, and monitoring implementations.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple ISPs provide services directly to ISVs, then service diversity and choice increase, but development complexity and overhead for ISVs increase due to needing to integrate with multiple different systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates universal integration platforms that provide standardized interfaces and common functionality for accessing services from multiple ISPs. ISVs can interact with these unified platforms rather than integrating with each ISP individually, maintaining service diversity while reducing development complexity through a single point of access.
Solution Approach 2:
The integration platforms serve as intermediaries that abstract the complexity of multiple ISP systems behind standardized interfaces. ISVs develop applications against these unified interfaces without needing to understand or implement the underlying complexities of each individual ISP's security, accounting, and monitoring systems.
3Adaptability or versatility
If ISVs integrate services from multiple ISPs directly, then service aggregation capability increases, but security, accounting, and monitoring requirements become more complex and difficult to manage
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the complex security, accounting, and monitoring functions from the ISV integration process and places them within the integration platforms. This allows ISVs to focus on service aggregation and application development while the platforms handle the complex operational requirements through standardized mechanisms.
Solution Approach 2:
The integration platforms act as intermediaries that manage security, accounting, and monitoring between multiple ISPs and ISVs. These platforms implement standardized authentication, authorization, billing, and monitoring mechanisms that simplify the management of these complex requirements compared to direct ISV-ISP integration.
Data Source
AI summary
A service integration platform system includes an interface configured to receive a service request initiated by an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) and one or more processors configured to authenticate the service request and in the event that the service request is authenticated, route the service request to an Internet Service Provider (ISP) providing the service to be further processed. The service request is routed to a deployment environment provided by the ISP in the event that the service request is received on a deployment Universal Resource Identifier (URI) corresponding to the deployment environment; the service request is routed to a test environment provided by the ISP in the event that the service request is received on a test URI corresponding to the test environment.