Patent Document ID: 6119101
Application ID: 08784829

Base Claim:
1. A computer network agent system for providing communication between an anonymous potential consumer of products which can be goods or services and a provider of such products, comprising in combination: a consumer personal agent for receiving product queries from the potential consumer and transmitting product recommendations to the potential consumer; a decision agent for receiving anonymous product queries from the consumer personal agent and transmitting product recommendations to the consumer personal agent; a provider personal agent for receiving demand queries from the provider and transmitting quantified demand information to the provider; a demand agent for receiving demand queries from the provider personal agent and transmitting quantified demand information to the provider personal agent; and a market for gathering information from the agents, organizing the information and distributing organized information to the agents.

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Claim 14:
14. A computer network agent system according to claim 1 wherein the demand agent comprises, in combination: a unique identifier function for maintaining an identifier that uniquely identifies this demand agent within the agent system; a personal agent reference for holding a copy of the unique identifier of the provider personal agent that controls this demand agent; a market reference for indicating in which market or markets the demand agent should search; a datetime range function for indicating that demand should be quantified over the date/time range specified; a demand query for describing a product or product category query that can be matched against the queries of decision agents; and a log function for storing records of the activities of the demand agent for later consultation by other components of the agent system.