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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 17, 2016
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Andrew M. Garratt, Andover, GB;

Andrew D. Humphreys, Emsworth, GB;

Martin G. Keen, Cary, NC (US);

John J. P. McNamara, Winchester, GB;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/61 (2018.01); G06F 8/73 (2018.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01); G06F 17/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/241 (2013.01); G06F 8/61 (2013.01); G06F 8/73 (2013.01); G06F 16/285 (2019.01); G06F 16/93 (2019.01);
Abstract

A computer-implemented method for collating and intelligent sequencing of installation documentation includes parsing one or more product installation documents to identify annotations associated with installation procedures. Installation procedure descriptions, parameters, and prerequisites associated with the identified annotations are extracted, and prescriptive step-by-step installation instructions that integrate installation procedures contained within the one or more installation documents are generated.


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