Unified Authentication Portal for Enterprise Data Access
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing enterprise computing environments face challenges in providing users with seamless access to multiple incompatible applications, often requiring separate login credentials and lacking a unified interface, especially in scenarios like mergers or acquisitions where disparate systems need to be integrated.
Innovation Solution
An integration portal that includes authentication, authorization, and data access layers, allowing users to access multiple applications through a single interface, eliminating the need for multiple login credentials and providing transparent access to relevant data across systems.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If users access multiple enterprise applications through separate login credentials, then each application can be accessed with proper authentication, but users face complexity in managing multiple logins and cannot efficiently access data across systems
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple separate authentication systems into a single unified authentication mechanism. The authentication server consolidates credentials for multiple applications, allowing users to log in once and access all authorized applications through a common interface, eliminating the need to manage separate login credentials for each system.
Solution Approach 2:
The authentication server is designed with universal functionality to handle authentication across diverse enterprise applications. It provides a single authentication interface that works with multiple different applications and systems, making the authentication mechanism applicable to various contexts without requiring application-specific login procedures.
2Adaptability or versatility
If enterprises maintain multiple independent systems for different functions, then each system can be optimized for its specific purpose, but users cannot efficiently access data across these systems and the enterprise lacks integration
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an authentication server as an intermediary component between users and multiple enterprise applications. This mediator enables cross-system data access by authenticating users once and providing them with access to data across multiple independent systems through a unified interface, without requiring the systems themselves to be merged.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent maintains the segmented architecture of independent enterprise applications while adding a layer of integration through the authentication server. Each application remains functionally independent and optimized for its specific purpose, while the authentication server provides the connectivity needed for cross-system data access, preserving both specialization and integration.
3Adaptability or versatility
If enterprises acquire or merge with other companies, then the enterprise gains new capabilities and markets, but the resulting multiple unrelated systems become difficult or impractical to combine
Solution Approach 1:
The authentication server provides universal access capabilities that work across applications from different companies acquired or merged into the enterprise. It creates a common authentication framework that can handle diverse applications without requiring them to be restructured or combined, enabling seamless access to capabilities from multiple sources.
Solution Approach 2:
The authentication server acts as a mediator that connects applications from different companies without requiring direct integration between them. It provides the necessary connectivity layer that allows users to access data across previously unrelated systems while maintaining their independence, thus reducing integration complexity after mergers or acquisitions.
Data Source
AI summary
An application portal selectively provides a user selective access to data. A data access layer is included in the portal and includes a map associating the user with a permission and further associating a combination of the user and the permission with a data entity, whereby it may be determined whether the user is permitted to access data identified with the data entity. A data stage included in the portal selectively undergoes a synchronization with a remote data store, the synchronization providing data access information that is used to update the map.