Unified Integration Protocol for Resilient Data Feed Transfers
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing data transmission methods between distinct client systems often prioritize convenience over resiliency and maintainability, leading to variable impact on business operations during outages and difficulty in troubleshooting transmission failures.
Innovation Solution
A unified integration pattern (UIP) protocol is implemented using a centralized data transmission hub to manage data file transfers between client systems, enabling real-time data feeds and reducing integration complexity through a reusable protocol that identifies transmission failures and improves resiliency, maintainability, and scalability.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Speed
If legacy integration strategies are used to prioritize shortest path to data delivery, then convenience and speed of data transfer are improved, but resiliency and ease of maintenance deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized data transmission hub as an intermediary component between sending and receiving client systems. This hub manages all data transfers through standardized protocols, providing reliable routing, error handling, and monitoring while maintaining fast data delivery. The intermediary absorbs the complexity of reliability management, allowing legacy systems to benefit from modern resilient architecture without rewriting their core data transfer logic.
2Speed
If legacy integration strategies are used to prioritize shortest path to data delivery, then convenience and speed of data transfer are improved, but ease of maintenance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal integration protocol at the centralized hub that handles multiple data transfer scenarios through a single standardized interface. This multi-functional protocol manages authentication, data validation, error recovery, and monitoring uniformly across all client systems, making maintenance easier by eliminating the need to maintain separate integration logic for each client. The hub's standardized protocol becomes the single source of truth for all data transfer operations.
3Adaptability or versatility
If disparate internal integration standards are used by each product engineering team, then team autonomy and customization are improved, but operational transparency and support overhead deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements comprehensive feedback mechanisms at the centralized hub that provide real-time status information about data transfer operations to all client systems. The hub logs, monitors, and reports on authentication status, data receipt confirmation, error conditions, and transfer metrics. This feedback infrastructure maintains operational transparency across all client systems while allowing each team to continue using their own integration protocols, as the hub translates between different client protocols and the standardized internal representation.
4Adaptability or versatility
If backend system dependencies are maintained in legacy integration, then existing system compatibility is improved, but identification and resolution of transmission errors deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the data transmission process into distinct, independently manageable phases: authentication, data transfer, validation, and confirmation. Each phase is handled as a separate operation with its own error handling and monitoring. This segmentation allows the system to maintain compatibility with various backend systems through the hub's standardized interface while providing clear, isolated error information for each phase, making error identification and resolution much easier than in monolithic legacy systems.
Data Source
AI summary
System and methods are provided for implementing a Unified Integration Pattern (UIP) protocol for centralized handling of data feeds between client systems. In embodiments, a method includes: receiving an authentication Application Program Interface (API) message and data file transfer request for a data transfer event from a sending client system in a network of distinct client systems; authenticating the sending client system based on the authentication API message; uploading a data file from the sending client system based on the authenticating; receiving a notification API message from the sending client system indicating that that uploading of the data file to the computer system is complete; sending the data file to a receiving client system in the network of distinct client systems based on API message and data file request and the notification API message; and sending a notification message to the sending client system regarding the data transfer event.