Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogra – Interprogram communication using message – Agent
Reexamination Certificate
2001-03-21
2010-12-28
Zhen, Li B (Department: 2194)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: interprogra
Interprogram communication using message
Agent
C709S202000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07861252
ABSTRACT:
A software architecture supports deployment of mobile software agents over the Internet. Mobile software agents or “bots” are bifurcated into two parts, a first part executable on a user's client platform (“mBot”), and a corresponding second part, called “sBot,” executable on a remote “bot server”. botServer implements virtual “meeting places” for visiting bots, and provides event notification, plug-ins and other services. The new system further includes a component called “botBox” executable on another server (which may be the same as the bot server), that tracks the status and locations of running bots, handles communications, and enables continuing operation while the user is off-line. Knowledge about the user, including private information, is finely controlled by custom user profiles which are defined by the user, but made available to the remote-executing sBot only through the botBox intermediary.
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Kunstman Pawel
Uszok Andrzej
Jellett IP Law PS
Zhen Li B
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