Adlet Extraction
The adlet extractor can be partially or fully
automatic, depending upon the type of multimedia documents to be processed.
At an adlet-enhanced node, incoming documents are converted into
active documents by the extraction of adlets. The ad-strategy for such adlets
is reactive, i.e., these adlets that are extracted from documents will remain
in their sites and do not travel. Thus adlet interaction is dealt with
by the local node equipped with the adlet-enhancement software.
As more and more nodes are enhanced with adlet-enhancement software, the
network becomes more active, and the behavior of adlets more sophisticated.
Therefore,
a) any document, including web page, database record, video file, audio file, image and
even paper documents, can be enhanced by an adlet and become an active document;
b) any node in a nonactive network can be enhanced by adlet-enhancement software and
the adlet-enhanced node can co-exist with other non-enhanced nodes.