KNOWLEDGE-BASED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICE

摘要

The system includes a wireless communication device (100) having a transceiver for sending and receiving communications across a wireless network (204) to a knowledge agency (206).The wireless device includes a software agent (214) responsible for quickly and efficiently accessing relevant information and providing it to the user, a knowledge database (216), and a position-determination device (218) for determining the location of the wireless device. The software agent takes information requests from the user and communicates them via the wireless network and the internet (200)to the knowledge agency which searches for relevant information in information resources such as the internet, electronic databases (210), and directories (220) and transmits the information back to the software agent which delivers it to the user.