Method and apparatus for function allocation and interface selection

• US 20070067145A1
• Filed: 08/25/2004
• Published: 03/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sift LLC
• Original Assignee: Sift LLC
• Inventors: Miller, Christopher, Meisner, John, Goldman, Robert, Wu, Peggy, Hamell, Joshua, Funk, Harry, Chapman, Marc, Norquist, Peggy
• Application Number:
  US10/711,126
• Publication Number:
  US 20070067145A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 703/6
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A method and apparatus for creating, modifying, elaborating and analyzing a task template is disclosed. The task templates created or modified are preferably stored in a repository of templates which are used for further task template specification. The task templates, and processes which operate

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising

a. a task editor

b. a task elaborator and

c. an analysis engine.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the task editor is used to create a specification of allowable task methods, parameters, and parameter bindings, said specification suitable as input to a task elaborator.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the task elaborator is an automated planner. [Claim 4]

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the task editor obtains the initial task template from among a plurality of stored task templates.

5. The apparatus of, wherein the apparatus further references an environmental state definition, said state definition being time dependent.

6. The apparatus of , wherein the apparatus further references an ontology of task information that defines allowable methods, parameters, and parameter bindings

7. The apparatus of , wherein the analysis engine is an simulator.

8. The apparatus of , wherein the analysis engine performs human workload estimation.

9. The apparatus of , wherein the analysis engine is a real-world exercise whose results are interpreted post-exercise.

10. The apparatus of , wherein the task elaborator creates a Ma kov Decision Process (MDP) representation.

11. The apparatus of , wherein the analysis engine is a MDP solver.

12. A method employed by the apparatus of , comprising

a. editing a task template

b. specifying the environmental state in which the task template is to be examined

c. generating a plurality of task instances which are allowable given the task template specification and environmental state

d. analyzing the task templates thus generated.