System and method for storing and accessing information via smart knowledge agents

• US 20050262053A1
• Filed: 05/18/2004
• Published: 11/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 05/18/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
• Inventors: Chen, Chun Yi, Lee, Yueh-Ching, Liou, Jeffrey, Du, Joseph
• Application Number:
  US10/847,746
• Publication Number:
  US 20050262053A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/02 Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a system and method for storing and accessing information. In one example, the system includes an internal smart agent, an internal knowledge tree connected to the internal smart agent, and an external data source. The internal smart agent is adapted to query the internal knowledge tree prior to accessing the external data source to provide information.

Claims

1. A system for storing and accessing information comprising:

a first internal smart agent;

an internal knowledge tree connected to the internal smart agent; and

an external data source including at least one of an external database and an external knowledge tree, the internal smart agent being adapted to query the internal knowledge tree prior to accessing the external data source to provide information.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising a second internal smart agent, coupled to the first internal smart agent, for querying the external data source for information, the first internal smart agent handling queries to the internal knowledge tree for information.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising an internal user I/O device connected to the first internal smart agent to enable a user to send and receive information.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising an authorized external user I/O device connected to the first internal smart agent to enable an external user to send and receive information.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the first internal smart agent and the internal knowledge tree are installed in a semiconductor manufacturing system.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the first internal smart agent and the internal knowledge tree exist within at least one external entity associated with the internet.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the first internal smart agent and the internal knowledge tree exist within at least one internal entity associated with a network.

8. A method for storing and accessing information, comprising:

providing a first internal smart agent;

maintaining an internal knowledge tree connected to the internal smart agent; and

supplying an external data source including at least one of an external database and an external knowledge tree, the internal smart agent being adapted to query the internal knowledge tree prior to accessing the external data source to provide information.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

providing a second internal smart agent, coupled to the first internal smart agent, for querying the external data source for information, the first internal smart agent handling queries to the internal knowledge tree for information.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

establishing an internal user I/O device connected to the first internal smart agent to enable a user to send and receive information.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising an authorized external user I/O device connected to the first internal smart agent to enable an external user to send and receive information.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising updating the internal knowledge tree with the information received from the external knowledge source.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising compiling the requested information received from the internal knowledge tree and the external knowledge source into a bundle.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising providing the bundle to a user.

15. A method of updating an internal knowledge tree, comprising:

receiving a piece of data from an external source;

determining if the piece of data is relevant to the internal knowledge tree;

updating the internal knowledge tree with the relevant piece of data; and

providing a notification of the updating of the internal knowledge tree to a user.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising allowing the user to determine whether or not to update the internal knowledge tree with the piece of data.

17. A system for extracting information and providing relationships between different information sets in a semiconductor manufacturing environment, the system comprising:

a first group of instructions for establishing a virtual fab having a plurality of entities;

a second group of instructions for establishing a team of agents;

a third group of instructions for establishing a matrix, the matrix intermixed with a plurality of internal and external entities of the virtual fab, and interfaced by the team of agents, and one or more memories for storing the first, second, or third group of instructions.

18. The system of claim 17, further comprising one or more processors for interfacing with the one or more memories and executing the first, second, and third groups of instructions.