公开(公告)号：USRE39717E1

公开(公告)日：2007-07-03

申请号：US10732886

申请日：1996-02-07

申请人： Martin John Yates ,  Ian William Marshall ,  Julian Richard Hill ,  Patrick Brian Farley ,  Mark Bagley

发明人： Martin John Yates ,  Ian William Marshall ,  Julian Richard Hill ,  Patrick Brian Farley ,  Mark Bagley

IPC分类号： G06F13/00

CPC分类号： H04Q3/0062 ,  H04M3/42136 ,  H04Q3/0045 ,  H04Q2213/1305 ,  H04Q2213/13502 ,  H04Q2213/13503 ,  H04Q2213/13504 ,  H04Q2213/13516 ,  H04Q2213/13533 ,  H04Q2213/13535 ,  Y10S707/99945 ,  Y10S707/99948

摘要： A services provision system provides information services over one or more communications networks and has a software infrastructure divided into domains. Each domain has an intelligent software agent and this community of agents sits in a computing environment represented in each domain by a DPE kernel. The community of agents co-operates to provide service and service management functionality to user. At least one of the agents is reconfigurable to change the functionality the system makes available. Reconfigurability is based on the use of a plurality of reusable software modules, the agent reconfiguring by selecting a new combination of modules. The software modules themselves incorporate rules, or policies, which determine process steps offered by the modules at run-time. These policies are external to the modules and may be loaded at run-time, allowing dynamic modification to functionality of the system. The system as a whole offers functionality associated with using services, providing them and managing them and the reconfigurability allows it to offer the different types of functionality in an efficient way. It also allows access control to functionality at different levels with particularly good security against fraudulent use.

摘要翻译： 服务提供系统通过一个或多个通信网络提供信息服务，并具有分成域的软件基础设施。 每个域都有一个智能软件代理，这个代理团体位于每个域中由DPE内核表示的计算环境中。 代理社区合作为用户提供服务和服务管理功能。 至少有一个代理可重新配置，以更改系统可用的功能。 可重构性基于多个可重复使用的软件模块的使用，代理通过选择模块的新组合来重新配置。 软件模块本身包含了在运行时确定模块提供的流程步骤的规则或策略。 这些策略在模块外部，可以在运行时加载，允许动态修改系统的功能。 该系统作为一个整体提供与使用服务相关联的功能，提供它们并进行管理，并且可重新配置允许它以有效的方式提供不同类型的功能。 它还允许对不同级别的功能进行访问控制，具有特别好的安全性，防止欺诈性使用。

公开(公告)号：US06330586B1

公开(公告)日：2001-12-11

申请号：US08875890

申请日：1997-10-14

申请人： Martin John Yates ,  Ian William Marshall ,  Julian Richard Hill ,  Patrick Brian Farley ,  Mark Bagley

发明人： Martin John Yates ,  Ian William Marshall ,  Julian Richard Hill ,  Patrick Brian Farley ,  Mark Bagley

IPC分类号： G06F1300

CPC分类号： H04Q3/0062 ,  H04M3/42136 ,  H04Q3/0045 ,  H04Q2213/1305 ,  H04Q2213/13502 ,  H04Q2213/13503 ,  H04Q2213/13504 ,  H04Q2213/13516 ,  H04Q2213/13533 ,  H04Q2213/13535 ,  Y10S707/99945 ,  Y10S707/99948

摘要： A services provision system provides information services over one or more communications networks and has a software infrastructure divided into domains. Each domain has an intelligent software agent and this community of agents sits in a computing environment represented in each domain by a DPE kernel. The community of agents co-operates to provide service and service management functionality to a user. At least one of the agents is reconfigurable to change the functionality the system makes available. Reconfigurability is based on the use of a plurality of reusable software modules, the agent reconfiguring by selecting a new combination of modules. The software modules themselves incorporate rules, or policies, which determine process steps offered by the modules at run-time. These policies are external to the modules and may be loaded at run-time, allowing dynamic modification to functionality of the system. The system as a whole offers functionality associated with using services, providing them and managing them and the reconfigurability allows it to offer the different types of functionality in an efficient way. It also allows access control to functionality at different levels with particularly good security against fraudulent use.

摘要翻译： 服务提供系统通过一个或多个通信网络提供信息服务，并具有分成域的软件基础设施。 每个域都有一个智能软件代理，这个代理团体位于每个域中由DPE内核表示的计算环境中。 代理团体合作为用户提供服务和服务管理功能。 至少有一个代理可重新配置，以更改系统可用的功能。 可重构性基于多个可重复使用的软件模块的使用，代理通过选择模块的新组合来重新配置。 软件模块本身包含了在运行时确定模块提供的流程步骤的规则或策略。 这些策略在模块外部，可以在运行时加载，允许动态修改系统的功能。 该系统作为一个整体提供与使用服务相关联的功能，提供它们并进行管理，并且可重新配置允许它以有效的方式提供不同类型的功能。 它还允许对不同级别的功能进行访问控制，具有特别好的安全性，防止欺诈性使用。