Software Agent Coordination via Evaluation System
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems lack efficient methods for coordinating software agents across multiple cores, leading to challenges in aggregating and transmitting data, managing security policies, and implementing partial service configuration changes in distributed application environments.
Innovation Solution
The system signals relationships between applications and cores, aggregates data, and transmits information while associating mobile agents with security policies, enabling situational responses and partial service configuration changes across inter-core linkages.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If software agents are coordinated across multiple cores in distributed application environments, then service configuration management and data aggregation capabilities are improved, but system complexity and difficulty of managing security policies increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an evaluation system that acts as an intermediary between software agents and the coordination mechanism. This evaluation system manages security policies and coordinates agents across cores, reducing the complexity burden on individual agents while enabling versatile service configuration management through centralized evaluation and policy enforcement.
2Productivity
If data aggregation and transmission are implemented across distributed cores, then information management efficiency is improved, but communication overhead and time delays increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary evaluation and security policy verification before data aggregation and transmission operations. By pre-establishing security contexts and evaluating agents beforehand, the system reduces communication overhead during actual data operations, as agents with valid security contexts can proceed with data aggregation without repeated verification delays.
3Reliability
If security policies are enforced for mobile agents across cores, then system security is improved, but processing overhead and operational complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent enables mobile agents to self-manage their security contexts by obtaining and maintaining security policy evaluations through the evaluation system. Agents can independently verify their security contexts and proceed with operations when policies are satisfied, reducing the operational complexity of security enforcement while maintaining strong security through automated self-service mechanisms.
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AI summary
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.