Method and apparatus for receiving information in response to a request

• US 20020174106A1
• Filed: 12/07/2000
• Published: 11/21/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/1997
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Actioneer, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Actioneer, Inc.
• Inventors: Martin, Frederic P.
• Application Number:
  US09/733,584
• Publication Number:
  US 20020174106A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/205 Parsing
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/284 Lexical analysis, e.g. tokenisation or collocates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/23 Reliability checks, e.g. acknowledgments or fault reporting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

An apparatus and method for processing a request is described. The method comprises receiving an input text expression from a user on a device, and parsing the input text expression to identify a keyword. The method further comprises determining a connector based on the keyword, and filling in a template in the connector, based on the input text expression. The method further comprises launching an agent identified by the connector based on the template, to perform predetermined tasks.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving an input text expression from a user on a handheld device;

parsing the input text expression to identify a keyword;

determining a connector based on the keyword;

filling in a template in the connector, based on the input text expression; and

launching an agent identified by the connector based on the template, to perform predetermined tasks.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the keyword includes multiple words in a key phrase.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the connector includes grammatical rules.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the metafile format is Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

invoking a second agent to perform a plurality of actions on a remote system, to perform the query.