Virtual Enterprise Cloud System Using Certification Cards
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Solution Overview
Problem
Cloud computing deployment faces challenges such as ongoing security concerns, service deployment, and availability of ITaaS, particularly in managing and securing IT resources and services across enterprises.
Innovation Solution
The virtual-enterprise cloud computing system (V-E CCS) integrates PaaS, IaaS, and SaaS resources, utilizing certification cards and a 'soft gate' and 'business box' to manage access and resource allocation, ensuring secure and privileged access to virtualized IT resources and services.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If cloud computing resources are shared across multiple users and organizations, then economies of scale and resource utilization are improved, but security concerns and access control complexity worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments cloud resources into isolated virtual environments for different users and organizations. Virtualization technologies create separate computational spaces where resources are logically divided but physically shared, allowing secure multi-tenancy while maintaining resource efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces certification cards and soft gate mechanisms as intermediaries between users and cloud resources. These intermediaries verify identities, enforce access policies, and mediate resource allocation, thereby maintaining security while enabling shared resource access.
2Reliability
If access control mechanisms are strengthened to address security concerns, then information security is improved, but system complexity and deployment difficulty worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses digital certification cards that replicate physical card concepts in the digital realm. These virtual cards contain encoded access credentials and can be distributed, stored, and validated electronically, simplifying the access control infrastructure while maintaining security.
Solution Approach 2:
The certification card system serves multiple functions: identity verification, access authorization, resource allocation, and audit tracking. This multi-functional approach consolidates what would otherwise require separate systems into a unified access control framework.
3Reliability
If certification cards and access control systems are implemented, then access security is improved, but deployment complexity and initial setup time worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-generates certification cards with embedded access credentials and permissions before users need them. The soft gate infrastructure is pre-configured with validation rules and policies, enabling rapid user onboarding without complex real-time setup procedures.
Solution Approach 2:
Users can self-register and receive certification cards through automated processes. The system automatically validates credentials, provisions access rights, and manages card distribution without requiring manual administrative intervention for each user.
4Productivity
If virtualization and resource pooling are implemented, then resource efficiency is improved, but management complexity and monitoring requirements worsen
Solution Approach 1:
The soft gate system continuously monitors resource usage, card validity, and access patterns, providing real-time feedback to administrators. This enables dynamic resource allocation, automated anomaly detection, and proactive management of virtualized environments without manual intervention.
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AI summary
A cloud computing system includes a first set of network computers providing a pool of virtual-enterprise resources integrated from lower-level cloud infrastructure including software as a service, platform as a service and infrastructure as a service. A second set of network computers form a soft gate providing access to the pool of virtual-enterprise resources by enterprise users accessing the cloud computing system via an external network. A third set of network computers form a business box providing for creation, management and use of certification cards to define the virtual-enterprise resources and to control use of the virtual-enterprise resources by the enterprise users. The soft gate and business box implement a card-creation flow that creates customized certification cards, and a card-usage flow that validates user privileges based on presentation of certification cards as a condition to granting access to virtual-enterprise resources.