A system for distributed task execution
CA 2266977 A1 · Owner: Corporation For National Research Initiatives · Inventors: Ely, David K.; Van Rossum, Guido; Strollo, Theodore R.
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A method for use in a distributed network (32) for processing a knowbot program (60) that has the ability to move from node to node in the distributed network (32). In the method, a knowbot operating environment (50) in each of the nodes provides service facilities useful to the knowbot program (60). And in the knowbot operating environment (50) a supervisor process (42) is run , that enables the knowbot program (60) to make use of the service facilities but does not permit direct access by the knowbot program (60) to facilities of the knowbot operating environment (50).
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- Filed September 23, 1997. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended September 23, 2017.
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