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Highly scalable software-based architecture for communication and cooperation among distributed electronic agents

DC CAFC
  • US 7,069,560 B1
  • Filed: 03/17/1999
  • Issued: 06/27/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/05/1999
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A software-based, flexible computer architecture for communication and cooperation among distributed electronic agents, the architecture contemplating a distributed computing system comprising:

  • a plurality of service-providing electronic agents;

    a distributed facilitator agent functionally distributed across at least two computer processes, the facilitator agent capable of bi-directional communications with the plurality of service-providing electronic agents, the facilitator agent including;

    an agent registry that declares capabilities for each of the plurality of service-providing electronic agents currently active within the distributed computing environment; and

    a facilitating engine operable to interpret a service request as a base goal, the facilitating engine further operable for generating a goal satisfaction plan associated with the base goal, wherein the goal satisfaction plan involves;

    using reasoning to determine sub-goal requests based on non-syntactic decomposition of the base goal and using said reasoning to co-ordinate and schedule efforts by the service-providing electronic agents for fulfilling the sub-goal requests in a cooperative completion of the base goal; and

    wherein the plurality of service-providing electronic agents and the distributed facilitator agent communicate using an interagent Communication Language (ICL), wherein the ICL 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.

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