2. A computer network agent system according to claim 1 wherein the consumer personal agent comprises, in combination: a unique identifier function for maintaining an identifier that uniquely identifies the consumer personal agent within the agent system; an owner manager function for maintaining data about the consumer; an individual firewall for protecting the data about the consumer from other agents, controlling all access to data that is maintained by the various internal functions, ensuring that only authenticated and authorized agents and users can access private data; a preference manager for maintaining data about the preferences of the consumer; a delivery manager for accepting messages generated by other agents or other components of the system, that are directed to the consumer and delivers those messages according to the consumer's desired delivery time and delivery media and rejecting unsolicited messages, unless an unsolicited message meets the consumer's preferred criteria as maintained by the preference manager; and a decision agent manager for assisting the consumer with the creation and management of decision agent.
2. A computer network agent system according to claim 1 wherein the consumer personal agent comprises, in combination: a unique identifier function for maintaining an identifier that uniquely identifies the consumer personal agent within the agent system; an owner manager function for maintaining data about the consumer; an individual firewall for protecting the data about the consumer from other agents, controlling all access to data that is maintained by the various internal functions, ensuring that only authenticated and authorized agents and users can access private data; a preference manager for maintaining data about the preferences of the consumer; a delivery manager for accepting messages generated by other agents or other components of the system, that are directed to the consumer and delivers those messages according to the consumer's desired delivery time and delivery media and rejecting unsolicited messages, unless an unsolicited message meets the consumer's preferred criteria as maintained by the preference manager; and a decision agent manager for assisting the consumer with the creation and management of decision agent. 3. A computer network agent system according to claim 2 wherein the decision agent manager comprises, in combination: a decision composer for assisting the consumer in composing queries to be executed by decision agents; a decision agent factory for creating a new decision agent to carry out a query; and a decision agent tracker for enabling the consumer to monitor the activities of decision agents that have not completed their tasks.