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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 12, 2010
Filed:
May. 28, 2004
Applicants:
Jean-marc Andreoli, Meylan, FR;
Stefania Castellani, Meylan, FR;
Inventors:
Jean-Marc Andreoli, Meylan, FR;
Stefania Castellani, Meylan, FR;
Assignee:
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A constraint solver is encapsulated in a service adapted to participate in a negotiation. In operation, the system constructs a graph in its memory for negotiating a set of actions to be performed by selected ones of a plurality of participants. Each node of the graph defines a negotiation context that has associated therewith a constraint store with at least a set of domain constraints stored therein that limit during the negotiation a set of semantic constraints of the service on variables of the constraint solver.