Using a community of distributed electronic agents to support a highly mobile, ambient computing environment
US7036128B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 9, 2000 |
| Grant date | Apr 25, 2006 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jan 22, 2024 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06N5/043
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A highly mobile, ambient computing environment is disclosed for serving a knowledge worker away from the their desk. The present invention allows a knowledge worker to get increased leverage from personal, networked, and interactive computing devices while in their car, airplane seat, or in a conference room with others. An Open Agent Architecture is used to incorporate elements such as GPS agents, speech recognition, and opportunistic connectivity among meeting participants. Communication and cooperation between agents are brokered by one or more facilitators, which are responsible for matching requests, from users and agents, with descriptions of the capabilities of other agents. It is not generally required that a user or agent know the identities, locations, or number of other agents involved in satisfying a request, and relatively minimal effort is involved in incorporating new agents and “wrapping” legacy applications. Extreme flexibility is achieved through an architecture organized around the declaration of capabilities by service-providing agents, the construction of arbitrarily complex goals by users and service-requesting agents, and the role of facilitators in delegatin…
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