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Software-based architecture for communication and cooperation among distributed electronic agents

DC CAFC
  • US 6,851,115 B1
  • Filed: 01/05/1999
  • Issued: 02/01/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/05/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computer-implemented method for communication and cooperative task completion among a plurality of distributed electronic agents, comprising the acts of:

  • registering a description of each active client agent'"'"'s functional capabilities as corresponding registered functional capabilities, using an expandable, platform-independent, inter-agent language, wherein the inter-agent language includes;

    a layer of conversational protocol defined by event types and parameter lists associated with one or more of the events, wherein the parameter lists further refine the one or more events;

    a content layer comprising one or more of goals, triggers and data elements associated with the events;

    receiving a request for service as a base goal in the inter-agent language, in the form of an arbitrarily complex goal expression; and

    dynamically interpreting the arbitrarily complex goal expression, said act of interpreting further comprising;

    generating one or more sub-goals expressed in the inter-agent language;

    constructing a goal satisfaction plan wherein the goal satisfaction plan includes;

    a suitable delegation of sub-goal requests to best complete the requested service request—

    by using reasoning that includes one or more of domain-independent coordination strategies, domain-specific reasoning, and application-specific reasoning comprising rules and learning algorithms; and

    dispatching each of the sub-goals to a selected client agent for performance, based on a match between the sub-goal being dispatched and the registered functional capabilities of the selected client agent.

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