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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 14, 2019
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kensuke Takahashi, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Tanaka, Tokyo, JP;
Naoyuki Tanji, Tokyo, JP;
Nobuo Onai, Tokyo, JP;
Naoki Take, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Yazaki, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Kato, Tokyo, JP;
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An API coordination device according to the present invention executes a coordinated service combining wholesale services of a plurality of wholesale providers by launching an API published to a service provider and by launching, in response to an order from the service provider, APIs through which the wholesale providers publish the wholesale services. The API coordination device includes: a catalog/rule management section configured to hold a coordination rule defining API simplification which is to be performed in such a way that, among parameters for executing the coordinated service, a subset of the parameters is hidden and the others of the parameters are published to the service provider; and an execution section configured to read the coordination rule and to launch the API published to the service provider in such a way as to hide the subset of the parameters and publishes the others of the parameters to the service provider.