Software Component Service via Authentication Token Translation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users of multiple software platforms face inefficiencies due to the need to familiarize themselves with platform-specific features and limitations, leading to reduced productivity and increased resource consumption as they navigate different platforms for collaborative work.
Innovation Solution
A method and system for providing software components as a service between platforms, allowing a consistent user experience by leveraging rich text components and authentication token translation, enabling seamless interaction and feature sharing without requiring users to context-switch or have authorization for each platform.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If each software platform is designed and implemented in platform-specific ways, then each platform can be optimized for its specific purpose, but users require to become familiar with the features and limitations of each individual platform, increasing time and resource consumption
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal user interface framework that provides consistent interaction patterns across multiple software platforms. This framework includes standardized components such as authentication mechanisms, data display formats, and navigation patterns that work across different platforms, allowing users to develop platform-agnostic skills while each platform maintains its specific functionality through the unified interface layer
2Adaptability or versatility
If users need to access multiple software platforms for collaborative work, then functional versatility is achieved, but users must learn and adapt to different platform-specific interfaces and operations, reducing overall productivity
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a universal interface framework as an intermediary layer between users and multiple software platforms. This framework acts as a mediator that translates user interactions into platform-specific operations while presenting a consistent, familiar interface to the user. The framework handles platform-specific nuances internally, shielding users from platform differences and enabling efficient cross-platform workflows
3Reliability
If software components are developed and maintained separately for each platform, then platform-specific functionality is optimized, but redundant development and maintenance resources are consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a shared component library within the universal interface framework that contains reusable UI components, authentication modules, and data handling functions. These components are designed to be platform-agnostic and can be deployed across multiple software platforms, eliminating redundant development efforts while maintaining platform-specific optimization through configuration rather than code duplication
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments software functionality into three categories: universal components (shared across platforms), platform-specific components (optimized for individual platforms), and integration layers (connecting components). This segmentation allows core functionality to be developed once and reused across platforms, while platform-specific optimizations are applied only where necessary through configuration and composition rather than complete redesign
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AI summary
A computing architecture for providing a software component or feature of a first platform as a service to a second platform. An API request from a frontend of the second platform, including a user auth token providing access to the second platform, can be received by an authentication token proxy service that converts the user auth token into a user auth token of the first platform. With this token, subsequent API requests of a backend of the first platform from the frontend of the second platform can be served directly by the second platform.