The Hayes-roth Family Trust

Cimflex Teknowledge Corporation

Frederick Hayes-Roth

Jay S Lark

Lee D Erman

Michael Fehling

A hook-up assistant (HUA) capable of assisting people in hooking up with other people, in various business and social settings, and of achieving decision-making, planning, and commitment activities asynchronously, thereby advantageously off-loading an event requester's tedious tasks of communicating with multiple potential participants and resource/service providers for an intended event/activity. The HUA effectively eliminates 'phone tag' problems and beyond, by enabling a user to simply 'make a wish,' e.g., &#x201c;make an event happen.&#x201d; The HUA takes appropriate actions to &#x201c;make the wish a reality,&#x201d; i.e., contacting all parties involved, determining mutually agreeable dates, times, arranging necessary devices, resources, and services, securing reservations, purchasing admission tickets, etc., to ensure all parties involved can actually participate in the event at the planned time and place. The HUA can communicate with animate/inanimate entities as well as other HUAs regardless of virtual/physical boundaries such as platforms, protocols, systems, networks, and the like.

Hook-up assistant

The present invention provides a secure information exchange mechanism that can be seen as a portal or gateway to his or her digital information. The invention is sometimes referred to as an 'n-by-m lockbox' because it allows n suppliers to submit information accessible by m accessors. Each lockbox owner specifies and controls who or what can provide what information to the lockbox, who or what can access what information stored therein, and when and how the stored information is accessed. The information may be encrypted and only authorized accessors would be able to decipher it. The lockbox may comprise multiple compartments that segregate information based on pertinent criteria and may incorporate multiple encryption/decryption mechanisms that respectively correspond to each of the multiple compartments. The lockbox owner may associate different encryption keys with different compartments and give these keys to different depositors or instruct depositors to utilize different keys for specific categories of content. The lockbox provides a means for improved organization of the storage of potentially vast amounts of information. Further, the lockbox solves many problems associated with spamming and also advantageously prevents problems associated with various security attacks, such as flooding and denial of service.

Personal portal and secure information exchange

A Multi-Level Architecture for developing intelligent computer systems composes computational modules uniformly across diverse developmental framework. The modules interact via message passing and are assembled to form application-specific systems. A first level of the Multi-Level Architecture includes a cooperative operating system which provides support for message passing and resource allocation and is preferably based on a module-oriented programming (MOP) model. The first level, for example, defines a virtual machine which is mapped onto an underlying hardware and operating system environment. A second level of the Multi-Level Architecture supports a plurality of application-independent problem-solving frameworks (PSF's) or programming environments for building modules and combining modules of different frameworks into complex systems. A third level of Multi-Level Architecture includes a plurality of knowledge processing modules ranging from specialized modules to skeletal systems which provide nearly complete solutions to application problems. For building an application-specific system, domain-specific knowledge is added on top of the third level and typically a selected skeletal system is customized. Extension or refinement of the application-specific system is accomplished by replacing existing modules with more complex modules or by using additional modules. The Multi-Level Architecture is particularly useful for building a plan monitoring and replanning system which monitors whether an initially valid design remains valid prior to its implementation, incrementally modifies the design to insure validity despite changing conditions, applies control knowledge to control sequencing among the monitoring and replanning functions, and also applies knowledge to explain the nature of design failures.

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Atherton, CA, United States of America

Frederick Hayes-Roth