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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 1990
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1988
Kenneth E Davies, Hants, GB;
Walter C Geddes, Rockville, MD (US);
Mark J Kline, Arlington, VA (US);
Alexander T Maluta, Redondo Beach, CA (US);
Bruce E Naylor, San Jose, CA (US);
Harrison Scofield, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Jeffrey N Stevens, Gaithersburg, MD (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
An expert system is provided which can be accessed by other application programs operating within any of the available operating environments in a general purpose computer system. In this architecture, an expert system consultation subsystem provides the means for performing expert consultations. Included within the expert system subsystem is a task manager which initiates and manages a plurality of concurrent consultations. Interface programming provides the capability for the expert system consultation subsystem to communicate and pass data and commands between it and other application programs operating within the computer system. Further, means are provided to allow the expert system subsystem to access data stored on database management systems.