Trading Grid Orchestration for EDI Reliability
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing electronic data interchange (EDI) systems face challenges in exchanging information across disparate networked computer systems due to diverse trading partner capabilities and complicated systems, leading to inefficiencies and obstacles in secure, fast, and reliable data exchange.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a Trading Grid information exchange platform that enables real-time, secure, and reliable electronic information exchange between disparate entities, using managed services such as translation, format conversion, and encryption, and employing intelligent document-centric orchestration to facilitate data flow across different entitlement boundaries.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional EDI systems are used for electronic document exchange, then data exchange can be achieved between trading partners, but the system complexity increases and efficiency decreases due to diverse trading partner capabilities and disparate systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a Trading Grid as an intermediary platform that mediates between senders and receivers with disparate systems. The Trading Grid provides standardized interfaces, translation services, and orchestration capabilities that enable reliable document exchange without requiring direct integration between trading partners, thus reducing system complexity while maintaining reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The Trading Grid implements universal, multi-functional services including translation, formatting, validation, and routing that work across diverse trading partner capabilities. This universal platform handles multiple document types, protocols, and formats through a single system, reducing the need for multiple specialized integration solutions.
2Reliability
If traditional EDI systems are used for electronic document exchange, then data exchange can be achieved, but the exchange speed and efficiency are reduced due to complicated processing systems
Solution Approach 1:
The Trading Grid performs preliminary actions by pre-configuring translation rules, validation schemas, and routing paths for different document types. When documents are submitted, the system quickly matches them against pre-established processing templates, eliminating the need for complex real-time decision-making and accelerating exchange speed while maintaining reliability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the document exchange process into distinct, independently optimized stages: submission, validation, translation, routing, and delivery. Each stage is handled by specialized services within the Trading Grid that can process documents in parallel, improving overall throughput and efficiency while ensuring reliability at each step.
3Loss of information
If document-centric orchestration is implemented across disparate entities, then visibility of document lifecycle is improved, but the complexity of managing entitlement boundaries increases
Solution Approach 1:
The Trading Grid implements comprehensive feedback mechanisms that track documents through their entire lifecycle across entitlement boundaries. The system provides status updates, validation results, and routing information back to senders and receivers, enabling full visibility of document progression while automatically managing the complexity of entitlement permissions through centralized policy enforcement.
Data Source
AI summary
An intelligent and versatile information exchange platform provides a delivery service operable to perform, in a network environment, processing a document in a first process context according to a first itinerary associated with a sender, including determining whether any receiver policy rule is applicable to the document. If so, the delivery service can determine a second itinerary in view of the receiver policy rule and automatically transition to act as a receive service for the receiver such that the document is processed is a second process context according to the second itinerary associated with the receiver. When no receiver policy rule is found or applicable to the document based on the document type of the document, the delivery service can deliver the document to the receiver under the first process context.