Storage Endpoint Activator for Native User Verification Routing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Central storage endpoint management systems face challenges in verifying the legitimacy of users across heterogeneous storage endpoints without relying on single sign-on (SSO) or a central authorization server, compromising data security and efficiency.
Innovation Solution
An activator directs users to the appropriate endpoint verification API, ensuring user legitimacy is verified by the target storage endpoint before allowing management operations, eliminating the need for users to know native functionalities of each endpoint.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If a central storage endpoint management system uses single sign-on (SSO) or a central authorization server to verify user legitimacy, then user verification efficiency is improved, but system complexity and dependency on external services increase
Solution Approach 1:
Each storage endpoint performs its own user verification using its native functionality, eliminating the need for external SSO or central authorization servers. The activator enables endpoints to autonomously verify users by directing them to appropriate verification APIs, making the system self-sufficient without external dependencies
Solution Approach 2:
The activator provides a universal interface that works across heterogeneous storage endpoints with different native verification mechanisms. It abstracts the complexity of multiple verification systems into a single unified approach, allowing the same activator to handle various endpoint types without requiring users to know endpoint-specific functionalities
2Reliability
If users are required to know native functionalities of each storage endpoint to verify legitimacy, then verification accuracy is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The activator serves as an intermediary between users and storage endpoints. It handles the complexity of directing users to appropriate verification APIs and managing the verification process, so users don't need to know endpoint-specific functionalities while maintaining accurate verification
Solution Approach 2:
The verification process is segmented into two parts: the activator handles the coordination and routing, while individual endpoints handle their own verification using native mechanisms. This segmentation allows each component to specialize without requiring users to understand the complexity of the overall system
3Stability of the object's composition
If a centralized verification system is used across heterogeneous storage endpoints, then consistency of verification is improved, but adaptability to different endpoint types deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system adapts verification parameters dynamically based on the specific endpoint type being accessed. The activator determines which verification API to invoke based on endpoint characteristics, allowing consistent verification methodology while maintaining adaptability to different endpoint types through parameter adjustment
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AI summary
Techniques described herein relate to a method for operations on storage endpoints. The method includes obtaining, by an endpoint manager, a first operation request associated with a storage endpoint from a user, wherein the storage endpoint is one of a plurality of storage endpoints included in a heterogeneous storage endpoint environment; identifying that the user is associated with the operation request; making, after the identifying, a first determination that the user is not already verified; in response to the first determination: performing endpoint specific user verification based on the storage endpoint to verify the identity of the user; and performing, in response to verifying the identity of the user, an operation associated with the operation request on the storage endpoint.