Transaction Linking Across Separate Systems
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems face challenges in providing a transparent user experience when interacting with multiple separate systems, as traditional stateful and stateless transaction approaches limit user interaction and require specialized software, making it difficult to span multiple systems with seamless user interaction.
Innovation Solution
Implementing a method where real-time data from stateless transactions across multiple systems is linked using a common transaction identifier, allowing concurrent presentation within a single user interface context, enabling context data passing and maintaining transparency for the user, exemplified by CRM and SCM systems like available-to-promise operations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If stateless transactions are used to access systems via web services, then system accessibility and modern web-based interaction are improved, but the ability to maintain user interaction context across multiple systems is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a transaction manager as an intermediary component that coordinates between multiple stateless transactions and the user interface. This manager maintains the contextual information that would otherwise be lost in stateless interactions, enabling seamless user experience across system boundaries while preserving the benefits of stateless web service architecture.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent segments the transaction management functionality into distinct components: the user interface layer, the transaction manager layer, and the backend systems. This segmentation allows each layer to operate independently with appropriate state management, enabling stateless backend services while maintaining user context through the coordinated interaction of segmented components.
2Adaptability or versatility
If multiple separate systems are integrated to provide comprehensive business functionality, then system capability and business process completeness are improved, but system complexity and integration difficulty increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal transaction manager that can coordinate transactions across multiple different systems and protocols. This single multi-functional component handles diverse business processes involving CRM, SCM, and other systems, reducing the need for separate integration logic for each system combination and simplifying overall system architecture.
3Ease of operation
If stateful transactions are used to maintain user interaction context, then user experience transparency and interaction continuity are improved, but system resource consumption and transaction duration increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements dynamic state management where the transaction manager adapts its behavior based on the specific transaction flow. Context information is maintained only when necessary for user interaction continuity, and released or transferred when no longer needed, optimizing resource consumption while preserving user experience transparency during critical interaction phases.
Data Source
AI summary
Methods and apparatuses enable linking stateful transactions with multiple separate systems. The first and second stateful transactions are associated with a transaction identifier. Real time data from each of the multiple systems is concurrently presented within a single operation context to provide a transparent user experience. Context data may be passed from one system to another to provide a context in which operations in the separate systems can be linked.