Distributed activity control systems and methods

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9996796-B2
Application number	US-201615274635-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 23, 2016
Priority date	Sep 18, 2014
Publication date	Jun 12, 2018
Grant date	Jun 12, 2018

Abstract

A dynamic, distributed directed activity network comprising a directed activity control program specifying tasks to be executed including required individual task inputs and outputs, the required order of task execution, and permitted parallelism in task execution; a plurality of task execution agents, individual of said agents having a set of dynamically changing agent attributes and capable of executing different required tasks in said activity control; a plurality of task execution controllers, each controller associated with one or more of the task execution agents with access to dynamically changing agent attributes; a directed activity controller for communicating with said task execution controllers for directing execution of said activity control program; a communications network capable of supporting communication between said directed activity controller and task execution controllers; and wherein said directed activity controller and task execution controllers communicate via said communication network to execute said directed activity control program using selected task execution agents.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A specifically programmed distributed, dynamic directed activity control computer system comprising:
one or more specifically programmed directed activity control computer machines, with at least one specialized computer machine including artificial intelligence expert system decision making electronic capability;
a non-transient memory having at least one region for storing particular computer executable program code; and
at least one processor for executing the particular program code stored in the memory, wherein the particular program code is configured to at least perform the following operations upon the execution:
the step of electronically storing in memory of said one or more specifically programmed directed activity control computer machine one or more directed activity control programs;
wherein said directed activity control programs define one or more of the following:
i) required individual directed activity task inputs and outputs;
ii) the required precedence order of specific task execution; and
iii) permitted parallelism in task execution;

the step of electronically storing in memory of said one or more specifically programmed directed activity control computer machines one or more artificial intelligence expert system defined propositional logic program statements;
wherein said artificial intelligence expert system defined propositional logic program statements define one or more of the following:
i) potentially dynamically changing task execution attributes; and
ii) task execution attribute relationships for distributed resources available to execute said directed activity tasks;

the step of electronically executing by the one or more specifically programmed directed activity control computer machines said one or more directed activity control programs, wherein said one or more specifically programmed directed activity control computer machines performs at least the following:
the step of electronically transmitting messages to at least one contained distributed resource;
wherein said electronically transmitted messages provide instructions to direct execution of said tasks according to requirements of said directed activity control programs; and

the step of electronically receiving messages from at least one contained distributed resource;
wherein said electronically received messages provide information about task execution status and potentially dynamically changing contained network task execution distributed resource attributes;

the step of electronically analyzing said electronically received messages using one or more of said electronic programmable specialized directed activity control computer machines, said specialized computer machines including artificial intelligence expert system decision making electronic capability and
wherein said step of analyzing said electronically received messages includes:
the step of generating expert systems comparisons with said one or more electronic programmable directed activity control computer machines of said artificial intelligence expert system defined propositional logic program statements and said electronically received message attribute analysis;
the step of analyzing with fuzzy logic said expert systems comparisons to derive task dispatch indices indicating the relative desirability of using particular resources among multiple potential distributed resources for particular task executions; and
the step of selecting a particular contained resource for executing a particular task based on comparisons of said fuzzy logic, expert system artificial intelligence analysis derived task dispatch indices; and

the step of transmitting by the one or more electronic programmable directed activity control computer machines a control message to execute the analyzed task using a selected contained resource.

2. The directed activity control computer system of claim 1 further comprising
a world-wide-web internet signal transceiver for transmitting and receiving said electronically transmitted messages and said electronically received messages.

3. The directed activity control computer system of claim 1 further comprising a cellular telephone transceiver for transmitting and receiving said electronically transmitted messages and said electronically received messages.

4. The directed activity control computer system of claim 1 further comprising a Wi-Fi transceiver for transmitting and receiving said electronically transmitted messages and said electronically received messages.

5. The directed activity control computer system of claim 1 further comprising a Bluetooth transceiver for transmitting and receiving said electronically transmitted messages and said electronically received messages.

6. The directed activity control computer system of claim 1 further comprising a data transceiver for transmitting and receiving said electronically transmitted messages and said electronically received messages.

7. The directed activity control computer system of claim 1 wherein said received messages originate from distributed electronic task execution controllers.

8. The directed activity control computer system of claim 1 wherein said transmitted messages are addressed to distributed electronic task execution controllers.

9. A method for operation of one or more specifically programmed directed activity control computer machines comprising a combination of the following steps:
the step of electronically storing in memory of said one or more specifically programmed directed activity control computer machine one or more directed activity control programs;
wherein said directed activity control programs define one or more of the following:
i) required individual directed activity task inputs and outputs;
ii) the required precedence order of specific task execution; and
iii) permitted parallelism in task execution;

the step of electronically storing in memory of said one or more specifically programmed directed activity control computer machines potentially dynamically changing task execution attributes,
the step of electronically storing in memory of said one or more specifically programmed directed activity control computer machines one or more artificial intelligence expert system defined propositional logic program statements;
wherein said artificial intelligence expert system defined propositional logic program statements define one or more of the following:
i) potentially dynamically changing task execution attributes; and
ii) task execution attribute relationships for distributed resources available to execute said directed activity tasks;

the step of electronically executing by the one or more specifically programmed directed activity control computer machines said one or more directed activity control programs, wherein said one or more specifically programmed directed activity control computer machines performs at least the following:
the step of electronically transmitting messages to at least one contained distributed resource;
wherein said electronically transmitting messages provide instructions to direct execution of said tasks according to requirements of said directed activity control programs; and

the step of electronically receiving messages by said one or more specifically programmed directed activity control computer machines;
wherein said electronically received messages provide information about task execution status and potentially dynamically changing contained network task execution distributed resource attributes;

the step of updating potentially dynamically changing task execution attributes stored in memory based on information in received messages,

the step of electroni

Assignees

• Pedersen Robert D

Inventors

• Pedersen Robert D

Classifications

• G06F9/5027

  the resource being a machine, e.g. CPUs, Servers, Terminals · CPC title

• G06N5/02 Primary

  Knowledge representation; Symbolic representation · CPC title

• H04L67/10 Primary

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title

• G06F9/4843

  by program, e.g. task dispatcher, supervisor, operating system · CPC title