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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180723 | Root cause analysis in a system having a plurality of inter-related elements A method of performing root cause analysis for use in a system comprising a plurality of inter-related elements, wherein at least some of the elements experience one or more abnormal conditions, comprising defining one or more conditions for more than one element sy... | 05/15/2012 |
| 7788207 | Systems and methods for integrating educational software systems Systems and methods are provided for integrating educational software. In one implementation, a first server receives an identifier of a second server that provides at least one source educational course. A second server receives metadata for the at least one source... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7349889 | System and method for remotely diagnosing faults A method and system for diagnosing a fault that includes a decision tree having a plurality of decision points wherein at least some of the plurality of decision points terminate in a resolution point representing a diagnosis for the fault. Also included is a plural... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7334166 | Method, system, and apparatus for providing and utilizing server-side entry points for use in diagnostics on-demand services A method, system, and apparatus enabling the use of server-side entry points when providing diagnostics on-demand services are provided. A request is received at a client computer to perform a diagnostic. In response to the request, an entry point is called on a ser... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7292685 | Pro-active features for telephony A system is provided for pro-actively suggesting communication features to users, comprising a tuple space for facilitating collaboration among software agents, a plurality of device agents for controlling operation of associated communication devices for respective... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286965 | Modular evolving knowledge-based diagnostic device for use in communication networks A diagnostic device, for use in a communication network including network equipments is provided. The diagnostic device includes a diagnostic module that is adapted to determine the pause of problems occurring within the network on the basis of information provided ... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7275048 | Product support of computer-related products using intelligent agents An apparatus, program product, and method utilize a dynamic, automated, extensible and flexible intelligent agent-based product support “framework” to facilitate the provision of product support services to customers of computer-related products. Agent platforms... | 09/25/2007 |
| 7260743 | System and method for achieving autonomic computing self-healing, utilizing meta level reflection and reasoning A mechanism is provided for achieving autonomic computing self-healing utilizing meta level reflection. In a base level, a monitor detects an error in a production environment. The base level provides a reification message comprising data about the error to a meta l... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7231549 | Method and apparatus for providing on-demand computer diagnostics A method and apparatus for providing on-demand computer diagnostics are provided. A control object is retrieved and stored at a client computer that is operative to retrieve a diagnostics module in response to a user request. The control object is also operative to ... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7225343 | System and methods for adaptive model generation for detecting intrusions in computer systems A system and methods for detecting intrusions in the operation of a computer system comprises a sensor configured to gather information regarding the operation of the computer system, to format the information in a data record having a predetermined format, and to t... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222113 | Method and system for a software agent control architecture A computer-implemented method and system for implementing a software agent control architecture. The method includes the step of generating a plurality of agents, wherein the agents are respectively configured to implement a rule-based behaviour. Respective rule set... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7200775 | Method and data structures for use in providing on-demand computer diagnostics A method and data structures for use in providing diagnostics on-demand services are provided. A data structure is provided that identifies one or more server-side entry points for use by a client computer upon which diagnostics on-demand are to be performed. A data... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7184994 | Scaleable object recognition with a belief model An exemplary embodiment of the present invention is directed to a system, method and computer program product for providing an object recognition blackboard system architecture. The system for recognizing objects in content can include: a blackboard comprising a plu... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7088809 | Call screening agent A method for providing telecommunication service includes receiving an incoming call request and generating a processing event, in response to the incoming call request. The method further includes transmitting the processing event to an operating space and notifyin... | 08/08/2006 |
| 6971094 | Deployed agent used in the installation and maintenance of software A managing computer manages applications residing on a managed computer. An agent is forwarded from the managing computer to the managed computer. The agent runs on the managed computer. The agent maintains specified applications residing on the managed computer. Th... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6915285 | Feature interaction resolution using fuzzy rules A method of detecting feature interaction conflicts between agents in response to events in a multi-agent system comprises posting said events as tuples and event requests as anti-tuples from said agents in said multi-agent system, receiving said events and said eve... | 07/05/2005 |
| 6907397 | System and method of media file access and retrieval using speech recognition An embedded device for playing media files is capable of generating a play list of media files based on input speech from a user. It includes an indexer generating a plurality of speech recognition grammars. According to one aspect of the invention, the indexer gene... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6611724 | On line monitor for a control device An online monitor that can be permanently attached to a device to be monitored continuously monitors a set of analog signals and initiates data capture over a window of time when a user programmable set of conditions is satisfied. The online monitor inclu... | 08/26/2003 |
| 6532444 | Network interactive user interface using speech recognition and natural language processing A system and method to interact with networked objects, via a computer using utterances, speech processing and natural language processing. A Data Definition File relates networked objects and a speech processor. The Data Definition File encompasses a mem... | 03/11/2003 |
| 6507918 | Method for the implementation of a fault diagnostic system and in-vehicle fault diagnostic system In a method for implementation of a fault diagnostic system having a number of diagnostic modules and in an in-vehicle fault diagnostic system, a second diagnostic module whose diagnostic result depends on the result of the fault diagnosis of at least one... | 01/14/2003 |
| 6427142 | Intelligent agent workbench An intelligent agent workbench is disclosed for developing a computer-based intelligent agent that can be inserted between a system and an individual performing a pre-defined function with the system and/or that can supplant such function performed by suc... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6411947 | Automatic message interpretation and routing system A method for automatically interpreting an electronic message, including the steps of (a) receiving the electronic message from a source; (b) interpreting the electronic message using a rule base and case base knowledge engine; and (c) classifying the ele... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6304833 | Hypothesis selection for evidential reasoning systems A method for the selection of hypotheses for modeling physical phenomena, includes detecting if selected features are present by analyzing actual sensed data and parameter values of an initial physical phenomena model; comparing feature estimating hypothe... | 10/16/2001 |
| 6212510 | Method for minimizing entropy in hidden Markov models of physical signals A system which observes the world through a video camera and/or other sensors, automatically learns a probabilistic model of normative behavior through the use of a Hidden Markov Model, and uses that model to infer the kind of activity currently under vie... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6192355 | Method of configuring a set of objects in a computer This invention relates to a method of configuring a set of objects in a computer, each object having at least one possible value, each value being determined or undetermined, and at least one of said object values being accessible to a user for assigning ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 5991743 | System and method for proactively monitoring risk exposure The present invention discloses a system and method for proactively monitoring risk exposure. In this invention, risk related information is received at an input knowledge source. A shared database stores the risk related information received at the input... | 11/23/1999 |
| 5727127 | Method for controlling a primary industry plant of the processing industry A method for controlling a primary industry plant of the processing industry, for example, in a steel plant or a rolling mill in order to, for instance, produce strips of steel or non-ferrous metals. The control method is designed in terms of computer eng... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5694558 | Method and system for interactive object-oriented dialogue management A method and system for processing a user dialogue using dialogue-state objects. The method and system are implemented using an interactive computer system. The interactive computer system includes a dialogue manager and application control logic. The met... | 12/02/1997 |
| 5675521 | Multichip module analyzer The disclosure describes a method for performing thermal reliability analysis of electronic devices such as multichip modules. The method supports the reliabilty of multichip technology during the design phase by integrating traditional thermal analysis t... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5638494 | Adaptive communication system The present invention relates to a method of operating a communication system comprised of providing a plurality of process agents for receiving goal commands (goals) and for invoking a process to achieve the goals, providing a plurality of device agents,... | 06/10/1997 |
| 5579468 | Information processing unit having function modules independently recognizing user information An architecture providing a human interface includes a user input device, a studio or workplace receiving an output of the user input device, the studio being capable of storing and sharing information, and a plurality of agents or functional modules conn... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5506999 | Event driven blackboard processing system that provides dynamic load balancing and shared data between knowledge source processors A blackboard parallel processing system for carrying out a general processing task using a plurality of parallel processors. In one application of the blackboard processing system, a workstation (102), which is part of an an automated workstation manufact... | 04/09/1996 |
| 5448722 | Method and system for data processing system error diagnosis utilizing hierarchical blackboard diagnostic sessions A method and system in a data processing system for managing a hierarchical error diagnostic system having a plurality of diagnostic modules for diagnosing a component failure within a target system having a predetermined group of components within each o... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5412756 | Artificial intelligence software shell for plant operation simulation An artificial intelligence software shell for plant operation simulation includes a blackboard module including a database having objects representing plant elements and concepts. A rule-based knowledge source module and a case-based knowledge source modu... | 05/02/1995 |
| 5402526 | Interruptibility/priority control scheme for artificial intelligence software shell An artificial intelligence software shell for plant operation simulation includes a blackboard module including a database having objects representing plant elements and concepts. A rule-based knowledge source module and a case-based knowledge source modu... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5402524 | Case-based knowledge source for artificial intelligence software shell An artificial intelligence software shell for plant operation simulation includes a blackboard module including a database having objects representing plant elements and concepts. A rule-based knowledge source module and a case-based knowledge source modu... | 03/28/1995 |
| 5398304 | Control process for artificial intelligence software shell An artificial intelligence software shell for plant operation simulation includes a blackboard module including a database having objects representing plant elements and concepts. A rule-based knowledge source module or a case-based knowledge source modul... | 03/14/1995 |
| 5377309 | Software work tool A software work tool used in an information processor and realizing a general purpose software work tool capable of automatically performing a software operation based on the information regarding a program. The software work tool comprises a software ope... | 12/27/1994 |
| 5251268 | Integrated method and apparatus for character and symbol recognition An apparatus and method for recognizing written items including characters and symbols is disclosed. A scanner is utilized for scanning the characters and symbols. A recognition module is used to confidently identify the scanned characters and symbols. Th... | 10/05/1993 |
| 5208768 | Expert system including arrangement for acquiring redesign knowledge A new expert system performs a redesign in connection with an original design. The expert system comprises a discrepancy determination component that identifies a discrepancy between operation of the original design and a desired operation. A redesign com... | 05/04/1993 |
