Socially intelligent agent software

• US 20060248461A1
• Filed: 04/26/2006
• Published: 11/02/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Original Assignee: Omron Corporation
• Inventors: Nakajima, Hiroshi, Yamada, Ryota, Nishide, Ritsuko, Iwamura, Kimihiko
• Application Number:
  US11/412,320
• Publication Number:
  US 20060248461A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/706
• CPC Class Codes: G06N 5/043 Distributed expert systems; Blackboards
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/00 Administration; Management

Abstract

A socially intelligent agent (SIA) platform enables interactions with various different applications, thereby enabling easier programming of various applications and injecting socially intelligent agents thereto. An application adapter is provided to enable interaction between any application and the SIA platform. In operation, the user provides input via the user interface and the input is applied to the application via the application interface. The application processes the input and provides a social event indication to the SIA platform, via the application adapter. The SIA platform then process the social event and output an behavioral response. The motional response is sent to the application via the application adapter. The application processes the behavioral response and, when proper, output appropriate response to a user interface.

Claims

1. An article of manufacture, which comprises a computer readable medium having stored therein a computer program for socially intelligent agent platform for providing social behavior of agents interacting with an application coupled to the platform in a virtual environment, the computer program comprising:

a first code portion which, when executed on a computer, generates at least one socially intelligent agent (SIA), said SIA outputting behavior signals in response to received event signals;

a second code portion which, when executed on a computer, generates a virtual environment, said virtual environment facilitating communication among socially intelligent agents created by said first code portion;

a third code portion which, when executed on a computer, forms an adapter facilitating transfer of data between said virtual environment and said application, said adapter further receiving event signals from the application and transferring the event signals to the virtual environment, and receiving agent behavior response from the virtual environment and transferring the behavior response to the application.

2. The article of manufacture according to claim 1, wherein said communication comprises application specific events.

3. The article of manufacture according to claim 1, wherein the communication comprises a task identifier, a task source, and a task destination.

4. The article of manufacture according to claim 2, further comprising a fourth code portion which, when executed on a computer, forms an event interpreter, said event interpreter receiving said specific events and issuing a corresponding common event.

5. The article of manufacture according to claim 1, wherein each SIA comprises:

a static register, a dynamic register, and a response model.

6. The article of manufacture according to claim 5, wherein upon receiving a communication, the SIA'"'"'s response model is operated to update the dynamic register.

7. The article of manufacture according to claim 6, when the response model receive an event signal, the response model queries the static and dynamic registers and outputs a corresponding response signal.

8. The article of manufacture according to claim 7, wherein the response model further determines the validity duration of said response signal.

9. The article of manufacture according to claim 4, wherein the event interpreter further determines the validity duration of a response signal to be sent to said application.

10. A socially intelligent agent (SIA) platform, structured for interactions with a plurality of applications having a plurality of actors, for injecting socially intelligent response to said actors, comprising:

an interface for receiving application data and event signals from said application and sending agent responses to said applications;

a socially intelligent agent generator that generate an SIA corresponding to each actor of said applications, each of said SIA comprising;

a dynamic register;

a static register;

a response model programmed to, in response to receiving an application event, update the dynamic register and to output an agent response based on at least one of the outputs of the dynamic register or the static register; and

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a virtual environment engine transferring event signals and event feedbacks among socially intelligent agents generated by the SIA generator.

11. The SIA platform according to claim 10, further comprising an event buffer, and wherein said event buffer stores indication of the validity duration of each event.

12. The SIA platform according to claim 11, wherein the event buffer comprises at least a momentary time duration, a sort time duration and an indefinite time duration.

13. The SIA platform according to claim 12, wherein the response model checks the event buffer to determine the duration of the agent response.

14. The SIA platform according to claim 10, further comprising a context generator, said context generator receiving said application data and maintaining a set of rules defining the object and the process flow of the application.

15. The SIA platform according to claim 10, further comprising a future action buffer storing actions to be taken upon occurrence of specified conditions.

16. The SIA platform according to claim 10, wherein said response model comprises an event interpreter and an output generator, wherein said event interpreter receives application events and issuing corresponding common events, and wherein said output generator receives said common events and updates said dynamic register in response to said common events.

17. The SIA platform according to claim 16, further comprising a future action buffer storing actions to be taken upon occurrence of specified conditions, and wherein said event interpreter updates said future action buffer.

18. A socially intelligent agent (SIA) platform, structured for interactions with a plurality of applications having a plurality of actors, for injecting socially intelligent response to said actors, comprising:

a socially intelligent agent generator that generate an SIA corresponding to each actor of said applications, each of said SIA comprising;

an event interpreter receiving application events from the application and converting the application events into common events;

a dynamic register;

a static register;

a duration buffer storing validity period of an agent response;

an output generator receiving said common events from said interpreter and updating the dynamic register in accordance with the common event and the duration buffer;

wherein upon updating of said dynamic register said SIA outputs a response messages based on at least one of the static and dynamic registers and the duration buffer.

19. The SIA platform according to claim 18, further comprising an application adapter, said application adapter receiving event signals from the application and transferring the event signals to the SIA, and receiving the response messages from the SIA and transferring the response messages to the application.

20. The SIA platform according to claim 19, wherein said duration buffer comprises at least a momentary time duration, a sort time duration and an indefinite time duration.

21. The SIA platform according to claim 18, further comprising a future action buffer storing actions to be taken upon occurrence of specified conditions, and wherein said event interpreter updates said future action buffer.