ADDRRESSABLE SMART AGENT DATA STRUCTURES
Independent and addressable smart agent data structures are assignable and discernible in large populations of them. Each provides for the recording and profiling of the corresponding constituent transaction behaviors of identifiable entities decodable in a stream of incoming transaction records. Each smart agent data structure comprises an array of attributes that together render the available details reported in the stream of incoming transaction records.
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9 . A smart agent for representing a corresponding participant in a series of transactions by the attributes manifested in data records of those transactions, comprising:
a smart agent state machine for reading a series of inputs and switching to different states;
means for addressability to trigger the state machine to advance through its steps between states, and to accept, store, and provide attribute data in profiles related to the transactional behavior of an identifiable entity manifest in an incoming stream of transaction records;
means for assignability to individually track and characterize the overall transactional behavior of said identifiable entity;
means for clocking time periods representing an age of life and for reporting said age;
means for starting said clocking time periods to begin advancing said age;
means for ending said clocking time periods to stop advancing said age;
means for triggering in a starting of the smart agent state machine; and
means for triggering out to start other smart agents.
10 . A plurality of smart agents each individually assignable to independently follow and represent a corresponding participant in a series of transactions by the attributes manifested in those transactions' records, each smart agent comprising;
a timer enabled to be triggered into operational life with an addressable trigger-in, and to begin aging said operational life tick-by-tick with a cycle clock;
a state machine enabled to be called into operation with an addressable call-in;
an addressable trigger-out enabled to trigger into operational life other particular smart agents by the state machine;
an addressable call-out enabled to call into action other particular smart agents;
an array of transactional attributes enabled to relate to a corresponding participant manifested a series of transactions;
a long term (LT) profile that is a memory log of the attributes of past transactions of a corresponding participant in a series of transactions, and that serves as a normal behavior profile; and
an objection output issuable by the state machine when an instant behavior differs from said normal behavior profile, or that issues if an age timeout occurs before the state machine has started, or that has not finished in response to an addressable call-in.
11 . The plurality of smart agents of claim 10 , further comprising:
an input for activity reports that are cleaned up, filtered for the particular smart-agent, and used to build the long term profile, and as each report comes in its information is inspected by the state machine to see if the activity was expected, normal, timely, respected priorities.
12 . The plurality of smart agents of claim 10 , further comprising:
means for consulting the attributes with the state machine once an addressable call-in is received;
means for scheduling other addressable triggers-out and addressable calls-out to issue in particular clock cycles; and
means for issuing objections if smart-agents that were not called into action were projected to be called.