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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 03, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 27, 1998
Chisato Numaoka, Paris, FR;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An architecture, which may be embodied in hardware, software or a combination of the two, is adapted to develop reflexes conditioned based on influences external to the architecture (such as user activity) in order to optimize the fulfillment of operational requirements of application modules in the architecture. The architecture includes, in addition to one or more application modules, modulation modules involved in the regulation of the functions performed by the application modules, a central regulator for registering the existence of an unsatisfied operational requirement in an application module and for controlling the modulation modules to seek a solution by a strategy including the external indication of a “need” condition via output modules. This manifestation is detected by the architecture itself via input modules, which also detect external phenomena indicating the activity of a user or external agent. An external event or input leads to satisfaction of the operational requirement. A conditioning system receiving inputs from the application modules, modulation modules, central regulator and input and output modules generates, on the basis of conditioning received through past experience, a signal indicating the expectation of satisfaction of the operational requirement. The operation of the architecture responds to the value of this expectation signal.