International Business Machines Corporation

Eileen Felicia Kopp

Nikolay Tzankov Markov

Marc D Boegner

Debra L Mayhew

Daina Pupons Wickham

Maria Teresa De Jesus Stoll

Gordon Andrew Davison

Julie Anne Santilli

Terry Michael Bleizeffer

Tony Kai-chi Leung

Stan Wong

Allan Eugene Gillespie

A method for interfacing with a plurality of wizards in a computer system. The method includes providing the plurality of wizards organized into groups; providing a launch button on a launch pad, wherein the launch button is associated with at least one wizard, wherein selection of the launch button executes the at least one wizard; providing information pertaining to the at least one wizard when a pointer is positioned over the launch button. The method further includes providing a high-level visual overview of a process corresponding to the plurality of wizards to assist a user when the user may not be familiar with the process before the user selects the launch button to execute the at least one wizard, wherein the high-level overview comprises a relationship between the at least one wizard and other wizards on the computer system.

Visual wizard launch pad

A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for computer-implemented creation of customized tree. A customized tree is created in a computer from an original tree. The original tree contains objects from a data storage device connected to the computer. One or more objects are selected from the original tree to be contained in the customized tree in response to user input. The selected objects are linked in a user-specified manner.

Creation of customized trees

A method for interfacing with a plurality of wizards in a computer system includes providing the plurality of wizards; providing a launch button on a launch pad, the launch button associated with a wizard, where selection of the launch button executes the wizard; and providing information pertaining to the wizard on the launch pad. The information includes a relationship between the wizard and other wizards on the computer system, elements of the computer system affected by the wizard, and/or how to information showing how to use a user interface of an application on the computer system to accomplish a task. The launch pads are interactive interfaces between a user of a computer system and wizards which exist on the computer system. The information is provided in the form of text and/or visual objects. The user has an overview of the complete process before the execution of each wizard.

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Gilroy, CA, United States of America

Eileen Felicia Kopp