Universal API Consolidating Network Resource Requests
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing API technologies require multiple extensive calls to display a UI layout, leading to delayed responses due to sequential requests across various resources, resulting in longer wait times for end users.
Innovation Solution
A universal API that allows user interfaces to communicate with multiple network resources using a single syntax, consolidating requests and enabling flexible payload molding based on specific use cases, while allowing new operations and data types to be added without altering existing resources.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If multiple sequential API calls are made to access different network resources, then comprehensive data can be retrieved, but response time increases and user wait time increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple sequential API calls into a single unified API call. The system accepts a single request that can retrieve data from multiple network resources simultaneously, consolidating what would otherwise require multiple separate calls. This merging approach maintains complete data retrieval while eliminating the sequential waiting time between calls.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces an intermediary layer (the universal API gateway) that sits between the user interface and multiple network resources. This intermediary receives a single request, distributes it to the appropriate resources, aggregates the responses, and returns consolidated data. The mediator enables parallel access to multiple resources without requiring the client to make multiple sequential calls.
2Loss of information
If multiple sequential API calls are made to access network resources, then all required data can be obtained, but the number of requests increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple separate API requests into a single unified request. The system allows clients to specify multiple resource identifiers in one call, and the intermediary processes all requests simultaneously, returning consolidated results. This reduces the number of requests from multiple sequential calls to a single call while maintaining complete data retrieval.
3Loss of time
If a universal API is implemented to consolidate requests, then response time improves and flexibility increases, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a universal API gateway as an intermediary layer that handles the complexity of coordinating multiple resource accesses. This mediator receives simplified client requests, translates them into appropriate resource-specific calls, aggregates responses, and returns unified results. The intermediary absorbs the system complexity, allowing clients to work with a simple interface while the backend handles the coordination overhead.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal API that can access multiple different network resources through a single interface. This multi-functional system handles various resource types (databases, services, microservices, applications) uniformly, allowing the same API structure to work across diverse resources. The universal interface consolidates complexity management while providing flexible access to heterogeneous resources.
4Adaptability or versatility
If sequential API calls are used to access multiple resources, then each resource can be accessed individually, but productivity decreases due to longer wait times
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple individual resource access calls into a single consolidated request that retrieves data from multiple resources simultaneously. The system maintains the ability to access specific resources individually through the unified interface, but enables parallel retrieval across multiple resources in one operation, dramatically improving data retrieval efficiency while preserving access flexibility.
Data Source
AI summary
A computer-readable medium storing instructions for a universal API (Application Programming Interface) for multiple network resources. The instructions cause a processor to perform receiving, from a user interface, a request associated with a set of different network resources. The request includes one or more operations for the different network resources. The instructions may cause parsing the request to identify each of the operations, and performing the operations on the network resources. The instructions may also cause collecting, from the network resources, responses to the operations that were performed; and generating a consolidated response that includes the responses. The consolidated response may be generated according to a schema defining valid syntax for communications.