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Unified messaging methods and systems for communication and cooperation among distributed agents in a computing environment

  • US 6,691,151 B1
  • Filed: 11/15/1999
  • Issued: 02/10/2004
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/05/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for providing unified messaging within an Open Agent Architecture (OAA) having a plurality of distributed electronic agents, the unified messaging method comprising the computer implemented acts of:

  • receiving a user request for messages of more than one type, wherein said messages are communications intended for consumption by one or more human beings; and

    providing to the user said messages utilizing a facilitator agent, wherein said facilitator agent, in a course of providing said messages requested by said user, generates one or more sub-goals and dispatches each of said one or more sub-goals to a particular client agent for performance based on capabilities of the particular client agent, wherein the capabilities of the particular client agent are made known to the facilitator agent and other client agents through registration of the capabilities with the facilitator agent.

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