Selective Tracking Token Scheme for Multi-Vendor Enterprise Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Enterprise systems, often including legacy systems, face challenges in tracking requests across multiple vendors due to limitations in existing monitoring solutions that typically support only unilateral tracking and cannot accommodate multiple vendors using the same protocol, leading to high resource costs and exclusion of other vendors from monitoring specific requests.
Innovation Solution
A selective tracking mechanism using a single tracking token scheme that allows multiple vendors to independently and selectively track requests through a unique correlator, enabling coexistence of monitoring solutions from different vendors by associating stakeholder tokens with each request and providing tracking information based on vendor-specific tokens.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple vendors use the same tracking protocol to monitor requests, then monitoring coverage is improved, but system complexity and resource costs increase due to unilateral tracking limitations
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal tracking token scheme that can be used by multiple vendors simultaneously. The tracking token includes a vendor identifier and request identifier, allowing any vendor to monitor requests through the same protocol without requiring separate tracking mechanisms for each vendor. This resolves the contradiction by enabling multi-functional monitoring coverage while maintaining protocol simplicity.
2Reliability
If tracking information is provided to all vendors for all requests, then monitoring completeness is improved, but resource costs increase due to unnecessary data processing
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by providing tracking information selectively based on vendor-specific criteria. Each vendor receives tracking information filtered by their vendor identifier, ensuring they only process relevant data for their monitoring needs. This resolves the contradiction by maintaining monitoring completeness for each vendor's perspective while reducing overall resource consumption through selective data processing.
3Device complexity
If a single tracking token scheme is used for multiple vendors, then protocol simplicity is improved, but vendor exclusivity is reduced as all vendors can access all request tracking data
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the tracking token into distinct components: a vendor identifier portion and a request identifier portion. This segmentation allows the protocol to remain simple and unified while enabling vendors to selectively access only the tracking data relevant to their identifier. The tracking information is segmented and delivered based on vendor-specific filters, resolving the contradiction between protocol simplicity and vendor exclusivity.
Data Source
AI summary
Aspects of the invention include receiving requests to be executed by a processing system, and receiving first stakeholder token from first monitoring agent and second stakeholder token from second monitoring agent, first and second stakeholder tokens being indicators to track at least one of the requests through the processing system. A tracking token is built for tracking at least one of the requests through the processing system, tracking token having a format acceptable by protocols of the processing system, tracking token including first and second stakeholder tokens and a unique correlator. Requests are transmitted to the processing system, where the tracking token is associated with at least one of requests in the processing system. Access is enabled to tracking information generated by the processing system associated with requests for the first monitoring agent based on first stakeholder token and for the second monitoring agent based on second stakeholder token.