Patent ID: 6915129

Claim:
Mobile agent system ( 1 ) for a communication unit ( 5 , 6 , 7 ) of a communication system, comprising: at least one mobile agent ( 3 ) comprising an allocated agent policy ( 8 ), in which migration parameters of the respective mobile agent are defined; migration control means ( 16 ) for controlling the migration behavior of a mobile agent ( 3 ) in the communication system on the basis of a current migration policy of the mobile agent ( 3 ) and current parameters of the communication system, wherein the current migration policy of the mobile agent defines the way the mobile agent system checks current network parameters; and policy control means for selecting the current migration policy of the mobile agent on the basis of the allocated agent policy of the mobile agent and a system policy, which is a policy selected from a default system policy or an agent type specific policy, said policy control means operating to overrule the selected current migration policy with a user command when the user command defining the current migration policy is received.