Data processing: artificial intelligence – Machine learning – Genetic algorithm and genetic programming system
Reexamination Certificate
1998-08-13
2003-04-22
Starks, Jr., Wilbert L. (Department: 2121)
Data processing: artificial intelligence
Machine learning
Genetic algorithm and genetic programming system
C709S202000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06553355
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates to methods and apparati involving distributed and networked autopoietic artificial intelligence systems with applications in a number of areas, including computing, industrial production, education, entertainment health, and telecommunication. More particularly, although not exclusively, the present invention relates to methods and apparati adapted to create, establish, operate and maintain integrated network systems which provides functionality for distance sensing, action, management and communications operations and activities and referred to as telesthesia (remote sensing, including television), telemetry of remote spaces and devices (remote measurements of physical parameters), telekinesis (remote mechanical action), telepresence (interpersonal audio-visual interaction at distance), telemanagement of remote devices (such as remote operation and control of complex plants, remote management of energy supply and use), and telecommunications (transfer of information of any kind across distances), and enable the provision of related services to third parties. The invention also relates to systems, models and methodologies for use with such systems.
BACKGROUND TO THE INVENTION
Over the last two decades, a number of domains of economic activity related to the use of networks have entered a phase of rapid technological change. These domains include applications requiring the use of networked computers and/or parallel computing, networks of electronic devices of various kinds, and various forms of artificial intelligence and expert systems such as in banking, education, entertainment, health, scientific research, various forms of telecommunications, energy supply and use, water distribution and many facets of local and international commerce and trade.
Changes in these domains are requiring a fast expansion of network throughput capacity, quality of service, such as rates of data transmission and latency, and the range of services capable to be delivered by networked systems. In parallel, there is also a rapidly increasing demand for the supply of services through mobile units (handheld, carried on or by a person such as cellular phone, laptop computer, or installed in a vehicle) that are comparable or equivalent to those provided through fixed units (such as fixed phone devices or desk top computers).
Conventional telecommunications and/or media networks, and related industries, are seeking to respond to the new demands by developing new interactive systems capable of delivering video-phone, video-conferencing, video-on-demand, and Internet services in addition to existing data and voice services. These improvements, however, do not fully meet the emerging new demands. The long term trend is towards the provision of low-cost, high reliability telesthesia, telekinesis, telepresence, telemetry, telemanagement, and telecommunication services based on network systems endowed with distributed artificial intelligence. These services or forms of functionality are closely interrelated. In order to stress this interrelationship, and to facilitate the description of this invention, in the remainder of the text these services are abbreviated as telhex services. This functionality is defined as follows:
Telesthesia—functionality refers to remote sensing, including television in the sense broadcasting audio-visual images and remote collection of audio-visual material. It also includes the other human senses such as touch and smell, albeit in limited forms at present, such as through various so-called virtual reality devices and systems. Beside broadcasting applications in the entertainment industry (such as various forms of television), telesthesia applications include the remote monitoring and surveillance of areas, such as a central business district (CBD) and of premises.
Telemetry—is an extension of telesthesia that refers to the remote carrying out of specific measurements of physical parameters such as temperature, pressure, force, mass, pH, voltage, current, harmonics, digital states, geographical location, and so on. Specific applications include the remote measurement and recording of supply and/or use of energy (power, gas), operating fluids (water, effluents, gases), discrete masses and devices (particles, powders, objects, and so on), monitoring of movements, tracking of vehicles, navigation, and related operations, remote operation of medical and health related devices for remote patient monitoring, remote operation of scientific instruments, and the like.
Telekinesis—refers to remote mechanical action by way of actuating mechanical, electronic, or chemical devices or a combination of these. Specific applications include remote operation of safety and/or health related devices such as railway crossings, traffic lights, health care equipment such as home breathing equipment, remote surgical operations, security of premises and vehicles (like operation and locking of doors), remote operation of machinery in difficult or dangerous environments.
Telepresence—is a further extension of telesthesia, telemetry and telekinesis for personal interactions at distance with other people, objects, devices or animals. Telepresence functionality includes audio and videophony but also extends into uses of a wide range of networked virtual reality techniques and robotics to achieve as comprehensive as might be required a human presence at a distance.
Telemanagement—refers to the remote management of devices or systems such as the remote operation and control of complex plants, the remote management of distributed energy supply and use networks, or the autonomous operation of intelligent networked robotics.
Telecommunications—is understood in the broadest sense to mean the transfer of information of any kind across distances by wired, cabled, or wireless means.
telhex services—also include the integration of part or all of the above forms of functionality such as required for the provision of services to, or by, third parties. These applications, for example, may be limited in scope to specific categories like surveillance and security of premises, provision of multimedia entertainment, or encompass large and complex ranges of networked activities such as in the operation of a hospital, a university campus, an assembly plant, a chemical processing plant, or a whole industrial estate. These activities also encompass the provision of networked administrative consumer services such as banking and insurance, and the facilitation of business transactions of all kinds (from video conferencing to means of electronic payments that preserve full privacy).
Beside the availability of the necessary technology, the development of networked systems endowed with distributed artificial intelligence and telhex functionality is driven by major independent economic and societal change trends. The two main aspects of these trends are: (1) the globalisation of the world economy and its implications for the way economic transactions and information exchanges take place; and (2) related changes in people's social and working life, their lifestyles, work environments, and work practices.
The former of these trends is characterised by the delocalisation of economic transactions. While physical aspects of production, transport, and consumption processes take place at specific geographical locations or routes, the corresponding social, economic and commercial transactions themselves increasingly take place in an informational space that is logically non-local, that is, not geographically located. This non-geographical space is now commonly referred to as “cyberspace”. Here social, economic and commercial transactions include orders, purchases, sales, marketing, collection, storage and exchanges of information of all kinds, and in particular production, storage, and exchange of units or amounts of monetary value as in contemporary banking and financial systems, but also new and emerging various forms of electronic cash, creation and handling of legal and commercial ins
Arnoux Louis Auguste
McGregor Andrew Drummond
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP
Indranet Technologies Limited
Starks, Jr. Wilbert L.
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