Evaluation systems and methods for coordinating software agents
AssigneeThe Invention Science Fund I, LLC
InventorsAlexander J. Cohen, Edward K. Y. Jung, Royce A. Levien, Robert W. Lord, Mark A. Malamud, William Henry Mangione-Smith
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Abstract
A device, method, computer program product, and network subsystem are described for associating a first mobile agent with a first security policy and a second mobile agent with a second security policy or for providing a first agent with code for responding to situational information about the first agent and about a second agent and for evaluating a received message at least in response to an indication of the first security policy and to an indication of the second security policy or for deploying the first agent.
Claims21
A network subsystem comprising:
- means for associating a first mobile agent with a first security policy and a second mobile agent with a second security policy;
- and
- means for evaluating a received message at least in response to an indication of the first security policy and to an indication of the second security policy including at least means for broadcasting one or more inquiries relating to at least one of the first security policy or the second security policy in use in one or more processing cores.
A network subsystem comprising:
- an agent configuration module operable for providing a first agent with code for responding to situational information about the first agent and about a second agent;
- a security protocol update module operable for modifying one or more security policies of one or more of the first agent or the second agent operating in one or more processing cores;
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- an agent deployment module operable for deploying the first agent.
A network subsystem comprising:
- a policy association module for associating a first mobile agent with a first security policy and a second mobile agent with a second security policy;
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- an evaluation module for evaluating a received message at least in response to an indication of the first security policy and to an indication of the second security policy including at least distilling from the received message at least one of an affirmative indication of security policy activation or a negative indication of security policy deactivation as one or more of the first security policy or the second security policy operating in one or more processing cores.
A network subsystem comprising:
- associating circuitry for associating a first mobile agent with a first security policy and a second mobile agent with a second security policy;
- and
- evaluation circuitry for evaluating a received message at least in response to an indication of the first security policy and to an indication of the second security policy, the evaluation circuitry including at least:
- circuitry for requesting the indication of the first security policy;
- circuitry for receiving a level indicator as the indication of the first security policy or the indication of the second security policy;
- circuitry for deciding whether to enable a triggering circuit in response to the indication of the second security policy;
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- circuitry for updating at least one of the first security policy or the second security policy responsive to one or more inquiries relating to at least one of the first security policy or the second security policy operating in one or more processing cores.
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