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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2018
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2008
Colin L. Bird, Hampshire, GB;
Amanda E. Chessell, Hants, GB;
Fazleabbas Kanji, Middlesex, GB;
Kate Shepherd, Hampshire, GB;
Simen Svennebye, Glasgow, GB;
William Thompson, Oxfordshire, GB;
Kamorudeen L. Yusuf, Hampshire, GB;
Colin L. Bird, Hampshire, GB;
Amanda E. Chessell, Hants, GB;
Fazleabbas Kanji, Middlesex, GB;
Kate Shepherd, Hampshire, GB;
Simen Svennebye, Glasgow, GB;
William Thompson, Oxfordshire, GB;
Kamorudeen L. Yusuf, Hampshire, GB;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Methods of generating a help files are presented including: accessing a user model, where the user model defines a number of objects and a number of relationships between the number of objects; selecting an object of the user model; receiving a text file corresponding with the object; creating a component of the help file from the text file; selecting an additional object of the user model, the additional object having a relationship with the object, the relationship corresponding with the number of relationships; and creating an additional component of the help file corresponding with the additional object. In some embodiments, methods further include: detecting a change to the user model; and regenerating the help file to incorporate the change. In some embodiments, methods are presented where the additional component includes: a link to the additional object, and a link to a respective text file of the additional object.