Operational Agents

A variety of agents have been integrated into the Open Agent Architecture:

• a User-interface agent that accepts spoken or typed (and soon, handwritten) natural language queries from the user and presents responses to the queries.
• a Database agent, written in C, that interacts with a remote X.500 Directory System Agent database containing directory information.
• a Calendar agent, which can report upon where a person might be, or when they might be performing a particular action. This information is retrieved from data created by Sun Microsystem's CalenTool application.
• a Mail agent that can monitor incoming electronic messages, and forward or file them appropriately. The mail agent works with any Unix-compatible mail application (e.g. Sun's MailTool).
• a News agent that scans Internet newsgroups searching for specified topics or articles.
• a Telephone agent, that can dial a telephone using a ComputerPhone controller, and can communicate with users in English, using NewTTS, AT&T's text-to-speech system.