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

Claim 16:
17. A tangible, non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing program instructions that cause a first deep fusion reasoning engine (DFRE) agent in a network to execute a process comprising:
receiving, at the first DFRE agent, first sensor data from a first set of one or more sensors in the network;
translating, by the first DFRE agent, the first sensor data into symbolic data;
applying, 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;
updating, by the first DFRE agent and based on the inference regarding the first sensor data, the symbolic knowledge base;
computing, by the first DFRE agent, a length of a chain of reasoning associated with the inference;
determining, 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;
propagating, by the first DFRE agent, the inference to the one or more other DFRE agents in the network.