Calico Jack's patent pending Jackdaw ® technology, provides a multi-agent system that works to integrate existing services, enhance security and provide mechanisms for new applications in the mobile world. Though technically sophisticated, the concept that Jackdaw implements is simple: one user in the real world is represented by one agent in the electronic world. That agent protects the user's data, and autonomously acts on the user's behalf. A user's agent is their single point of contact to whatever services a user may wish to employ. A user's agent is always there, always contactable. Using Jackdaw means users and agents can communicate wherever and whenever: by phone, PDA, web, email, fax, TV, ...

• Flexibility. Jackdaw agents come equipped with state of the art nonmonotonic reasoning capabilities that allow new information to be absorbed and then harnessed quickly and efficiently.
  
• Reliability. As a multi-agent system, Jackdaw is extremely resilient to circumstances which would cause other systems to fail.
  
• Scalability. Jackdaw supports ad-hoc networking of agent communities, supporting the creation of large (10⁷+) systems.
  
• Future Proof. Jackdaw's architecture is easily maintained and enhanced. New functionality is simple to develop, install and upgrade.
  
• Interaction, Integration and Migration. Existing functionality is easily wrapped by agents to bring them into Jackdaw, simplifying migration. Generic wrappers exist for many standards such as web services.
  
• Security and Empowerment. Agents do not release the data they hold without authorisation from their users. In this way they can empower users in areas such as health where security is paramount and patient data has traditionally been held by other stakeholders.
  
• Modularity. Jackdaw agents can quickly and easily be equipped with new functionality on the fly, without requiring either the system or the agent to be temporarily offline.
  
• Novelty and USPs. Jackdaw supports completely new types of applications and services which can deliver unique selling points to developers and operators.

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