Patent ID: 11966413
Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 8:
9. An apparatus, comprising:
one or more network interfaces to communicate with a network;
a processor coupled to the one or more network interfaces and configured to execute one or more processes; and
a memory configured to store a process executable by the processor, the process when executed configured to:
receive first sensor data from a first set of one or more sensors in the network;
translate, by a first DFRE agent executed by the apparatus, the first sensor data into symbolic data;
apply, by the first DFRE agent and using a symbolic knowledge base maintained by the first DFRE agent, symbolic reasoning to the symbolic data to make an inference regarding the first sensor data;
update, by the first DFRE agent and based on the inference regarding the first sensor data, the symbolic knowledge base;
compute, by the first DFRE agent, a length of a chain of reasoning associated with the inference;
determine, by the first DFRE agent and based on the computed length of the chain of reasoning associated with the inference that the inference should be propagated to one or more other DFRE agents;
propagate the inference to the one or more other DFRE agents in the network.