EMBEDDED AGENT FRAMEWORK AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING UBIQUITOUS SERVICES USING THE EMBEDDED AGENT FRAMEWORK

摘要

An EAF(Embedded Agent Framework) and a ubiquitous service providing method using the same are provided to offer various services by controlling service agents for providing an intelligent service to a user in a ubiquitous environment on the EAF, and offer the convenient/continuous services by providing a complex service dynamically through intelligent cooperation with EAF installed in other embedded systems. Each service agent(117a) performs a requested service on an embedded system(100a). A system interface agent(111a) transfers a service request of the embedded system to an EAF(110a). A service control agent(115a) analyzes the requested service by receiving the service request from the system interface agent and requests the service agent providing the analyzed service to perform the service. An EAF interface agent(116a) communicates with an external EAF(110b). The service is requested to the external service agent through the EAF interface agent when the analyzed service is provided by the external service agent(115b). An internal and external management databases(113a,114a) store information of the service agents included in the embedded framework and the external embedded framework. An agent managing agent(112a) registers, modifies, and deletes the service agent information stored in the databases.