Patent ID: 6535881
Filing Date: 2003-03-18
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
Apparatus connected to a network for finding and providing information objects stored on a plurality of nodes in the network to a plurality of independent software agents, each having an interest in selected information objects, the database comprising:an examining node for registering each of the agents, processing the interest information for each registered agent and sending the processed interest information together with a corresponding ID identifying the each agent to selected nodes in the network; an indexing mechanism located in each of the plurality of nodes, the indexing mechanism searching the information objects stored on that node in response to processed interest information and, when selected information objects match the processed interest information, returning the selected information objects together with the ID corresponding to the processed interest information to the examining node; and a mechanism in the examining node that provides information objects returned with an ID to the registered agent identified by that ID.