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US 6,289,394 B1Granted
Agent management system capable of readily monitoring and controlling agent
AssigneeMitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorHiroshi Kozuka
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Abstract
An agent managing system which enables a user to readily control, from outside, internal information of an agent performing autonomous coordinating operations. The system comprises a program for requesting monitoring and controlling of the agent from outside, and a program for interchanging the necessary information to/from the agent in accordance with the request from the program. As a result, while the agent can independently carry out the autonomous coordinating process as the conventional system, it also becomes possible to control the internal information of the agent securely and flexibly from outside.
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An agent management system comprising:
- a plurality of agents, each for performing an autonomous coordinating process within an autonomous coordinating operation environment;
- first information interchanging means associated with each said agent within said autonomous coordinating operation environment for interchanging information necessary for the autonomous coordinating process of said agent by asynchronous communication to/from said agent;
- agent-monitor/control request means external to and associated with said plurality of agents for requesting monitoring or controlling of said plurality of agents from an external environment external to said autonomous coordinating operation environment;
- second information interchanging means associated with each said agent within said autonomous coordinating operation environment for interchanging necessary information requested by said agent monitor/control request means by synchronous communication to/from said plurality of agents within said agent management system;
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- said first information interchanging means suspending the asynchronous communication to/from said agents while said second information interchanging means synchronously communicates to/from said agents so that said agent-monitor/control request means can directly monitor and control said agents from the external environment.
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An agent management system comprising:
- a plurality of applications each not being composed as an agent which operates in an autonomous coordinating environment;
- information-reading interface means associated with each application for acting as an information reading process of said application;
- information-writing interface means associated with each application for acting as an information writing process of said application;
- first storage means associated with each application for storing an information format dependent on said application;
- second storage means associated with each application for storing an information format dependent on a communication in the autonomous coordinating operation system;
- information format converting means associated with each application for converting the information format of communication to be used in said application into an information format of communication to be used in the autonomous coordinating operation system, based on the information format stored in said first and second storage means, said converting means being connected to said application through said information-reading interface means and said information-writing interface means;
- an information interchanging field external to and associated to said plurality of applications wherein the information is mutually interchanged in an autonomous coordinating environment;
- transmitting means associated with each application for transmitting information obtained from said application through said information format converting means to said information interchanging field;
- receiving means associated with each application for receiving the information from said information interchanging field and transferring it to said application through said information format converting means;
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- joining means for joining existing applications not composed as agents which operate in an autonomous coordination environment as a plurality of pseudo-agents.
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An agent management system comprising:
- a plurality of applications not being composed as an agent each of which operates in an autonomous coordinating environment;
- standard input/output and error output ports associated with each application;
- first storage means associated with each application for storing an information format dependent on said application;
- second storage means associated with each application for storing an information format dependent on the communication in the autonomous coordinating operating system;
- information format converting means associated with each application for converting, the information format of communication used in said application into an information format of communication used in the autonomous coordinating operation system, based on the information stored in said first and second storage means, said information format converting means being connected to each application through an information-reading interface means and an information-writing interface means;
- an information interchanging field external to and associated with said plurality of applications where the information is mutually interchanged in the autonomous coordinating environment;
- transmitting means associated with each application for transmitting the information obtained from said application through said information format converting means to said information interchanging field;
- receiving means associated with each application for receiving the information from said information interchanging field to said application through said information format converting means;
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- joining means for joining existing applications not composed as agents which operate in an autonomous coordinating environment as a plurality of pseudo-agents, wherein the existing applications only include standard input/output and error output parts.
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An agent management system comprising:
- a plurality of autonomous coordinating operation environments, each of which includes an agent;
- a policy managing means external to and associated with said plurality of autonomous coordinating operation environments for managing policies of said plurality of autonomous coordinating operation environments;
- a connecting state managing means external to and associated with said plurality of autonomous coordinating operation environments for managing connecting states of said plurality of autonomous coordinating operation environments at discrete time intervals;
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- an inter-environmental information interchanging means external to and associated with said plurality of autonomous coordinating operation environments for interchanging information among said plurality of autonomous coordinating operation environments in accordance with said policy managing means and said connecting sate managing means;
- wherein said inter-environmental information interchanging means will not transfer information to an autonomous coordinating operation environment, when the information violates a policy of the autonomous coordinating environment.
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