Standardized API Interpretation Across IT, OT, MD, and HR
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing systems face challenges in integrating disparate IT, OT, MD, and HR systems due to varying computer languages and lack of standardized API interpretation, leading to high integration costs, increased human error, and reduced productivity.
Innovation Solution
A project and task-based communications network that integrates IT, OT, sensors, and HR systems using a hierarchical platform with a personnel register, API data storage, and escalation rules, allowing secure, automated data transactions and communications.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If disparate IT, OT, MD, and HR systems are integrated without standardized API interpretation, then system connectivity is achieved, but integration costs increase and human error increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer (integration platform or API gateway) that standardizes communication between disparate systems. This intermediary translates and normalizes API calls from different systems (IT, OT, MD, HR) into a common format, enabling connectivity without direct point-to-point integrations, thereby reducing integration complexity and costs.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements a universal API standard that enables a single integration point to serve multiple disparate systems. This universal interface handles various data types and communication protocols from different systems (IT, OT, MD, HR) through a unified mechanism, reducing the need for multiple specialized integration solutions.
2Device complexity
If manual data transfer is used between systems, then integration costs are reduced, but human error increases and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables systems to automatically exchange data through standardized APIs without requiring manual intervention. The integration platform facilitates self-service data transfer where systems autonomously publish, subscribe, and exchange information, eliminating manual data entry while maintaining cost-effectiveness through automated processes.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements automated feedback mechanisms including data validation, error handling, and confirmation protocols that ensure data accuracy during automated transfers. The system provides feedback loops that verify data integrity, notify stakeholders of successful transfers, and automatically correct or flag errors, thereby maintaining high reliability without manual intervention.
3Productivity
If standardized API interpretation is implemented, then integration costs decrease and productivity increases, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the integration architecture into distinct modular components: API gateways, translation layers, data normalization services, and system adapters. Each component handles a specific aspect of the integration process, allowing the standardized API interpretation to be implemented in manageable segments rather than as a monolithic complex system.
4Ease of manufacture
If direct system-to-system integration is performed without standardization, then implementation is simpler, but maintenance difficulty increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a standardized intermediary layer that simplifies initial implementation by providing pre-configured integration templates and common protocols. For maintenance, this same intermediary serves as a centralized point for updating and managing integrations, reducing maintenance difficulty by eliminating the need to modify multiple direct system connections when changes are required.
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AI summary
A method for intuitive system building includes accessing a processor through a user interface to execute a program, wherein the program is stored on a memory device connected to the processor, creating projects and tasks, setting up processes within a task, setting security for personnel, giving access rights and privileges to individual accounts, and accessing a generic API library for integrating software, executing instructions through the processor whereby the projects and tasks are set as a tree structure for intuitive system building, executing instructions through the processor by giving approved personnel an ability through the user interface to create a set of forms to deploy through a task to the personnel to facilitate individualized processes, executing instructions through the processor whereby the security for personnel is set by role and the user interface applies a global set of rules over roles where read/write, edit and viewing capabilities are set.