公开(公告)号：US06401080B1

公开(公告)日：2002-06-04

申请号：US08821935

申请日：1997-03-21

申请人： Joseph Phillip Bigus ,  Brian John Cragun ,  Helen Roxlo Delp

发明人： Joseph Phillip Bigus ,  Brian John Cragun ,  Helen Roxlo Delp

IPC分类号： G06F1760

CPC分类号： G06Q30/06 ,  G06Q20/3821 ,  G06Q40/00 ,  G06Q40/04

摘要： An intelligent agent and method of negotiating herewith incorporate a number of features, used alone or in combination, to enhance the productivity, security, efficiency and responsiveness of the agent in negotiations with other parties. One feature incorporates randomization of one or more aspects of an agent's behavior to disguise its negotiation strategy from other negotiating parties and thereby prevent such parties from gaining a negotiating advantage at the expense of the agent. Another features incorporates limiting unproductive negotiations by constraining one or more aspects of an agent's behavior based upon the behavior of a negotiating party and/or the duration of the transaction, and thereby making it more likely that unproductive negotiations will be terminated. An additional feature incorporates dynamic value determination to determine the desired value of a desired transaction by weighting and normalizing estimated values retrieved from a plurality of information sources. Moreover, a further features incorporates dynamic value determination which weights and normalizes the values of related transactions based upon the proximity of the related and desired transactions.

摘要翻译： 一个智能代理商和谈判方式，其中包含了单独或组合使用的一些功能，以提高代理商在与其他方面谈判中的生产力，安全性，效率和响应能力。 一个特征包括将代理人行为的一个或多个方面随机化以掩盖其与其他谈判方的谈判策略，从而防止这些各方以代理人为代价获得谈判优势。 另一个特征包括限制非生产性谈判，通过基于谈判方的行为和/或交易的持续时间约束代理人行为的一个或多个方面，从而使非生产性谈判更可能终止。 额外的特征包括动态值确定，以通过对从多个信息源检索的估计值进行加权和归一化来确定期望交易的期望值。 此外，另外的特征包括动态值确定，其基于相关和期望交易的接近度对相关交易的值进行加权和归一化。

公开(公告)号：US06192383B1

公开(公告)日：2001-02-20

申请号：US09150708

申请日：1998-09-10

申请人： Brian John Cragun

发明人： Brian John Cragun

IPC分类号： G06F1721

CPC分类号： G06F17/21 ,  Y10S707/99952

摘要： A method and system for uniformly indexing a network document displayed within a computer display screen in a computer network having a group of clients connectable to one or more servers, wherein the network document is composed of displayable components. Initially, all displayable components within the network document are identified. Next, the displayable components are serially evaluated against a profile list of particular displayable components within the network document, in response to identifying all displayable components within the network document. Finally, synchronization points are automatically inserted at predetermined locations within the network document, in response to serially evaluating the displayable components against the profile list, wherein each synchronization point is associated with a particular displayable component contained within the profile list, thereby permitting users reviewing copies of the same network document in varying display formats to refer to identical locations within the network document relative to the synchronization points, regardless of the type of display format utilized to display the network document at each of the group of clients within the computer network. The network document may be composed of a World Wide Web document. The web document is thus parsed and all components belonging to the component list are serially marked. This is accomplished utilizing a special tag for processing and a follow-up tag for display. The result is a uniform and consistent set of synchronization points throughout the document.

摘要翻译： 一种在具有可连接到一个或多个服务器的客户端组的计算机网络中统一分度显示在计算机显示屏幕内的网络文档的方法和系统，其中所述网络文档由可显示组件组成。 首先，识别网络文档中的所有可显示组件。 接下来，响应于识别网络文档中的所有可显示组件，可显示组件针对网络文档中的特定可显示组件的简档列表进行连续评估。 最后，响应于针对简档列表对可显示组件进行串行评估，自动地将同步点插入到网络文档中的预定位置，其中每个同步点与包含在简档列表内的特定可显示组件相关联，从而允许用户查看副本 不同于在计算机网络内的每组客户端中的每个客户端上显示网络文件的显示格式的类型，不同的显示格式的相同网络文档是指相对于同步点在网络文档内的相同位置。 网络文档可以由万维网文档组成。 因此解析了Web文档，并且将属于组件列表的所有组件串行标记。 这是通过特殊的处理标签和后续标签进行显示的。 结果是整个文档中统一且一致的同步点集。

公开(公告)号：US5953017A

公开(公告)日：1999-09-14

申请号：US904004

申请日：1997-07-31

申请人： Mark John Beach ,  Brian John Cragun

发明人： Mark John Beach ,  Brian John Cragun

IPC分类号： G06F3/033 ,  G06F3/048 ,  G06F15/00

CPC分类号： G06F3/0481

摘要： A display-object manager that manages a display of object identifiers on a display screen. The object identifiers are organized in a tree structure, and represent objects. The display-object manager displays the object identifiers and then selects a subset of the object identifiers to compress. All members of the subset are siblings in the tree structure, and their parent has additional children that are not in the subset. The display-object manager replaces the display of the subset with a new identifier that represents the subset.

摘要翻译： 显示对象管理器，用于管理显示屏上的对象标识符的显示。 对象标识符以树状结构组织，并表示对象。 显示对象管理器显示对象标识符，然后选择要压缩的对象标识符的子集。 该子集的所有成员都是树结构中的兄弟姐妹，并且它们的父对象具有不在子集中的其他子节点。 显示对象管理器用代表子集的新标识符替换子集的显示。

公开(公告)号：US5859662A

公开(公告)日：1999-01-12

申请号：US652087

申请日：1996-05-23

申请人： Brian John Cragun ,  Paul Reuben Day

发明人： Brian John Cragun ,  Paul Reuben Day

IPC分类号： H04N7/08 ,  G06F17/30 ,  G11B27/00 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/10 ,  G11B27/34 ,  H04N5/44 ,  H04N5/445 ,  H04N5/765 ,  H04N7/025 ,  H04N7/03 ,  H04N7/035 ,  H04N7/081 ,  H04N7/088 ,  H04N21/41 ,  H04N21/4143 ,  H04N21/434 ,  H04N21/478 ,  H04N21/482 ,  H04N21/488 ,  H04N5/76

CPC分类号： H04N21/4828 ,  G06F17/30796 ,  G11B27/034 ,  G11B27/105 ,  H04N21/4135 ,  H04N21/4143 ,  H04N21/4325 ,  H04N21/4334 ,  H04N21/435 ,  H04N21/454 ,  H04N21/8405 ,  H04N21/8455 ,  H04N5/4401 ,  H04N5/44513 ,  H04N5/765 ,  H04N7/0882 ,  H04N7/0884 ,  G11B2220/20 ,  G11B2220/41 ,  G11B2220/415 ,  G11B27/002 ,  G11B27/34 ,  H04N21/4884 ,  H04N5/445 ,  Y10S707/99933

摘要： A television presentation and editing system uses closed captioning text to locate items of interest. A closed captioning decoder extracts a closed captioning digital text stream from a television signal. A viewer specifies one or more keywords to be used as search parameters. A digital processor executing a control program scans the closed captioning digital text stream for words or phrases matching the search parameters The corresponding segment of the television broadcast may then be displayed, edited or saved. In one mode of operation, the television presentation system may be used to scan one or more television channels unattended, and save items which may be of interest to the viewer. In another mode of operation, the system may be used to assist editing previously stored video by quickly locating segments of interest.

摘要翻译： 电视演示和编辑系统使用隐藏字幕文本来定位感兴趣的项目。 闭路字幕解码器从电视信号中提取一个隐藏的字幕数字文本流。 观众指定要用作搜索参数的一个或多个关键字。 执行控制程序的数字处理器扫描与搜索参数匹配的单词或短语的隐藏式字幕数字文本流。然后可以显示，编辑或保存电视广播的对应段。 在一种操作模式中，电视演示系统可用于扫描一个或多个无人值守的电视频道，并且保存观众可能感兴趣的项目。 在另一种操作模式中，系统可以用于通过快速定位感兴趣的段来辅助编辑先前存储的视频。