Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput – Distributed data processing – Processing agent
Patent
1998-10-30
2000-11-07
Coulter, Kenneth R.
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput
Distributed data processing
Processing agent
706 10, G06F 1300
Patent
active
06144989&
ABSTRACT:
Method and agent network architecture for processing a subject message, where each agent has a view of its own domain of responsibility. An initiator agent which receives a user-input request and does not itself have a relevant interpretation policy, queries its downchain agents whether the queried agent considers such message to be in its domain of responsibility. Each queried agent recursively determines whether it has an interpretation policy of its own that applies to the request, and if not, further queries its own further downchain neighboring agents. The further agents eventually respond to such further queries, thereby allowing the first-queried agents to respond to the initiator agent. The recursive invocation of this procedure ultimately determines one or more paths through the network from the initiator agent to one more more leaf agents. The request is then transmitted down the path(s), with each agent along the way taking any local action thereon and passing the message on to the next agent in the path. In the event of a contradiction, the network is often able to resolve many of such contradictions according to predetermined algorithms. If it cannot resolve a contradiction automatically, it learns new interpretation policies necessary to interpret the subject message properly. Such learning preferably includes interaction with the user (but only to the extent necessary), and preferably localizes the learning close to the correct leaf agent in the network.
REFERENCES:
patent: 5734897 (1998-03-01), Banks
patent: 5890146 (1999-03-01), Wavish et al.
Amamiya Makoto
Hodjat Babak
Savoie Christopher J.
Coulter Kenneth R.
Dejima, Inc.
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