Oracle International Corporation

Jeffrey Stephenson

Blake T Sullivan

Maria Elisabeth Kaval

Ritchard Shadian

Matthew Clifton Cooper

Scott Michael O'Bryan

Adam Winer

Brian Albers

Gabrielle Crawford

Arjuna Wejeyekoon

Harry William Baggett, Iii

A system for providing user assistance receives a request for user assistance from a component on a user interface. The component includes a help identifier, and the request is generated by a type of user selection, such as the clicking of an icon. The system determines a level of user assistance based on the type of selection and retrieves user assistance content based on the help identifier and the determined level of user assistance. In one embodiment, the user interface includes three levels of user assistance.

Embedded user assistance for software applications

A hierarchically structured electronic document includes a parent node, a first and a second child of the parent node. The first child is configured as a named role child, the named role child having a first child component, the named role child specifying a relationship between the first child component and the parent node. The second child is configured as an index role child and has a plurality of second child components. The index role child specifies that all second child components are index children. The second child components collectively define and are configured to be rendered in the order in which the second child components appear under the second child. Collisions between named role and index children are avoided as the document includes a role (either a name role or an index role) between the parent and each child of the parent that is at the same hierarchical level.

Methods and systems for naming and indexing children in a hierarchical nodal structure

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San Carlos, CA, United States of America

Jeffrey Stephenson