Unified Identity Platform for Low-Code Integration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current software systems face significant challenges in integrating standardized security technologies for secure sign-on, user management, and data access, requiring multiple disparate solutions and incurring high integration costs.
Innovation Solution
A unified platform that integrates standard technologies for user identity and access management, multi-factor authentication, product licensing, and data streaming, providing a single point of integration and enabling easy monetization of data streams.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple disparate managed software subscriptions are used for SSO, user management, and data access, then each function can be provided by specialized vendors, but the integration effort and cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple disparate managed software subscriptions into a single unified platform that provides SSO, user management, permissions, and data stream access. This consolidation eliminates the need for separate integrated connections between multiple vendors, directly reducing integration complexity while maintaining all necessary functionality through a single platform instance.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified platform is designed to perform multiple functions that were previously distributed across separate subscriptions. It universally handles authentication, authorization, user management, and data access through a single system, allowing one platform to replace multiple specialized subscriptions and eliminating the need for complex inter-system integration.
2Adaptability or versatility
If three or more separate managed software subscriptions are required for complete functionality, then comprehensive feature coverage is achieved, but the cost of full integration between services increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines the functionality of three or more separate managed software subscriptions into a single integrated platform. By merging these services, the solution maintains comprehensive feature coverage while eliminating the need for multiple separate integration contracts, thereby reducing integration costs without sacrificing feature completeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified platform provides universal access to all features that were previously distributed across multiple subscriptions. This multi-functional approach allows customers to obtain complete functionality through a single platform instance, avoiding the cumulative integration costs associated with connecting multiple separate services.
3Reliability
If standardized technologies are integrated through multiple separate solutions, then each technology can be optimized independently, but the overall system integration effort increases
Solution Approach 1:
The unified platform provides universal integration points for standardized technologies through a single system architecture. This approach maintains the ability to optimize each technology independently while eliminating the need for multiple separate integration efforts, thereby reducing overall integration time without compromising technology optimization.
4Device complexity
If a unified platform integrates multiple functions, then integration cost and complexity are reduced, but the platform must accommodate diverse technologies and licensing models
Solution Approach 1:
The unified platform incorporates dynamic configuration capabilities that allow it to adapt to diverse technologies and licensing models without requiring rigid pre-definition. This dynamic approach enables the platform to accommodate various integrations and licensing scenarios while maintaining integration simplicity, as the system can flexibly adjust its behavior based on specific requirements rather than requiring complex static configurations.
Data Source
AI summary
Integrated system enables implementors to integrate functionality into software systems to enable user identity and access management across customers/products. Management platform enables a pool of accounts/technical components representing users/machines to be authenticated against systems/products, authenticated accounts/technical components to perform functions within systems/products, representations of external software systems as products to be mapped to identities, accesses, organizations, and permissions, and representation of groups of accounts organized by a common aspect where the groups can request access to products licensed by the groups. Multi-factor authentication module enables various third-party technologies to lend MFA functionality to the management platform and the users. Product license purchase module enables an entity external to the implementor and represented by an organization to request and gain access to products in a formalized manner. Data stream ecosystem enables the implementor to define data streams and connect systems to the data streams to move data packets between the systems.