Patent Document ID: 5515454
Application ID: 07922153
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A self-organizing system having a system input signal with constituent elements comprising: self-organizing means for providing an output signal corresponding to the analysis of the constituent elements of said input signal, said self-organizing means further comprising a plurality of subcircuits, each subcircuit having a changeable state and at least one subcircuit adapted to receive messages of the subcircuit state from at least one other subcircuit, said subcircuits organized into a plurality of levels; an input set composed of both the constituent elements of said system input signal and the output state of each said subcircuit, each subcircuit adapted to receive input messages from at least one element of the input set and which input messages can originate from other subcircuits in previous levels, in the same level and in higher levels, wherein said input messages provide relative amounts of positive and negative weighting on said subcircuits; voting means for voting on the state of each said subcircuit based on a comparison of the relative amounts of positive and negative weighting which the input messages have on each subcircuit; weighting modification means for modifying the weighting of the inputs to each said subcircuit based upon the changes of state of the received input messages.