151 results about "Information agents" patented technology

Systems and methods for discovery and classification of denial of service attacks in a distributed computing system may employ local agents on nodes thereof to detect resource-related events. An information later agent may determine if events indicate attacks, perform clustering analysis to determine if they represent known or unknown attack patterns, classify the attacks, and initiate appropriate responses to prevent and/or mitigate the attack, including sending warnings and/or modifying resource pool(s). The information layer agent may consult a knowledge base comprising information associated with known attack patterns, including state-action mappings. An attack tree model and an overlay network (over which detection and/or response messages may be sent) may be constructed for the distributed system. They may be dynamically modified in response to changes in system configuration, state, and/or workload. Reinforcement learning may be applied to the tuning of attack detection and classification techniques and to the identification of appropriate responses.

A platform independent model for exchanging information among numerous entities in a justice system with diverse system components is implemented in a hub and spoke arrangement. Each spoke includes a software agent that communicates with a system component of an entity of the justice system, translates from a common communication format to a communication format of the system component, and manages the timing of the flow of information to/from the system component. The hub includes an information broker that communicates with each agent in the common communication format, determines what information is needed by which entity, and routes the needed information to/from respective agents for the entities that need the information. The platform independent model includes a plurality of traceable and linked UML models that define the information broker from a business use case model through to a platform independent solution model for implementation on a given solution platform. Since these UML models are readily modifiable and traceable for changes to the justice system, they facilitate implementation of the system in a cost-effective manner from one customer to the next without requiring system redesign.

Coupons which are displayed as a text message on a mobile telecommunication device and include a code uniquely identifying the coupon are provided for. Systems for generating coupons on demand are also provided for. The system comprises an agency computer having access to a coupon database. The coupon database comprises information on offers and a location value assigned to each offer. The agency computer is connectable to a mobile communications network or other network for transmitting electronic mail. It receives requests for coupons from consumers that are transmitted via the network. Preferably, the requests originate from cells phones or other mobile telecommunication devices and are transmitted to the agency computer via a mobile communications network. The request is a text message that includes information identifying the consumer's location. The agency computer system identifies a coupon in the coupon database that is responsive to the coupon request based on the consumer's location and the offer location value. It then sends the identified coupon to the consumer via the network.

The present invention relates to a system and methodology to facilitate timely delivery of notifications and performance of automated actions for users in the framework of an ad-hoc rules processing environment. An information agent operates as a distributed application to perform automated actions for users in accordance with user preferences and context. Various rules can be executed to delay, inhibit, and/or enable an action such as sending notifications according to the preferences and current user states as determined from the context. The rules can include data centric matching logic, set-oriented execution rules, rule ordering/interaction hierarchies, and ad-hoc Boolean combinations, for example.

An information management system for restricting access to personal data in compliance with law or regulation includes a database having restricted records stored therein, at least one of the records including an identification of a client or group of clients about whom said record concerns. A computer system under the control of a trusted information broker is configured to receive via a communication medium a request initiated by a requester for access to at least one of the restricted records in the database, the request including an identification of the requester. The computer system is further configured to transmit a request for consent to the client and receive an indication from the client that the client consents or does not consent to access to the restricted record by the requestor. The computer system grants or denies access to the restricted records based upon the indication from the client.

A method and system for providing enhanced intelligent agents that are moveable by a user from a browser application to a desktop. In specific embodiments, agents provide advanced interactive graphics and communications back to a server.

The embodiment of the invention discloses clustering method and device, routing method and device of a cluster head and a base station, belonging to the technical field of wireless sensor networks. The clustering method comprises the steps of: carrying out logic region division on a target region and determining a region ID of the target region; selecting one agent node in each region, wherein a node in an agent node notification region is used as an agent; sending node state information by the node in an agent node receiving region; and selecting one node in the region by the agent node according to the information as the cluster head, wherein the region becomes one cluster. The routing method comprises the steps of: selecting one base station in which a link has lower load when transmitting data from two base stations; determining the gradient of the cluster head according to the region ID in the cluster to transmit the data to the selected base station along the diminishing direction of gradient; selecting N cluster heads with gradient less than that of a source cluster head as a next hop cluster head to transmit the data along the direction of the selected base station by the source cluster head; and selecting N cluster heads with gradient less than that of a middle hop cluster head as a next ho cluster head to transmit the data along the direction of the selected base by the middle hop cluster head.

The present invention discloses a solution for adding a profiling agent to a virtual machine (VM), which permits unit test programs to access information relating to memory and performance from runtime data areas of the VM. Operations permitted by the agent can include starting/stopping VM monitor, getting objects from the heap, retrieving an invocation count, determining a size of an instantiated object, getting a current thread time, and the like. Memory and performance information gathered during a test can be stored for later analysis under a test version identifier. A comparison engine can create reports that use the stored performance and memory data, which can help developers compare memory/performance deltas among different unit versions. In one embodiment, the VM can be a JAVA VIRTUAL MACHINE (JVM) and the unit test programs can be JUNIT programs.

A facsimile machine provides file specifying information of a transmission file to an agent software. The agent software runs an appropriate application program in accordance with the file specifying information. By using this function, a prescribed file on a data conversion device is converted directly into an image content via a network from the facsimile machine. Accordingly, a facsimile transmission of the image content to a prescribed destination can be carried out just by an operation from the facsimile machine. As a result, an efficiency of a facsimile transmission process is improved.

An apparatus and method for supporting mobility of a mobile terminal in a wireless local area network (LAN) environment deploying mobile IP are provided. The method for registering a mobile node using a virtual mobile node comprises: detecting whether or not a mobile node traveling among a plurality of networks is connected; and registering information on the mobile node whose connection is detected, with an agent relaying communication between the mobile node and a correspondent agent. By doing so, even when a mobile IP module is not installed, the mobile node can perform wireless communication seamlessly between networks in a wireless LAN environment deploying mobile IP.

An embodiment of the present invention provides an electronic recharge method and an agent terminal. The electronic recharge method includes: the first agent terminal receives a first recharge request, and the first recharge request includes the identification information and the recharge amount of the user terminal to be recharged; the first agent terminal Determine the operator of the user terminal to be recharged; the first agent terminal selects one piece of entity agent account information from at least one piece of entity agent account information corresponding to the operator; the first agent terminal sends a second recharge request to the operator's electronic recharge system , the second recharge request includes the selected entity agent account information, the identification information of the user terminal to be recharged, and the recharge amount, so that the operator's electronic recharge system recharges the user terminal to be recharged according to the recharge amount, and the recharge The amount will be deducted from the account corresponding to the selected entity agent account information. The above method expands the recharging capability of the agency terminal in the prior art.

The invention provides a filtering system for domain name, comprising a domain name server for achieving the domain name filter installed with a filtering proxy sub system and a filtering centre sub system for generating the filtering directive. The sub system filter center filter based on information entered by the user in light of filter sub system status information agent for the filtering agent sub system command to generate the corresponding filter; domain filtering proxy server sub system analysis and implementation of the filter orders received, according to modify the content filter command of the domain name server configuration file, the domain name server configuration file under the name of the content filter to filter the domain name. The present invention does not require the operation of the existing domain name server to do any changes, which are easy to implement, easy to maintain the advantages of the existing domain name and server stability and performance have no effect.

A system and method for enabling searchable encryption of encrypted documents stored by a client on one or more storage providers includes a broker server in communication with the client and the one or more storage providers. The broker server is adapted to transfer the encrypted documents between the client and the one or more storage providers and to maintain information indicating where the encrypted documents are transferred. The broker server further stores information for at least one encrypted index for the encrypted documents and a test function for a searchable encryption mechanism used to encrypt the at least one encrypted index.