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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2001
Filed:
Jul. 23, 1998
Applicant:
Inventor:
Andrew R. Harding, Scotts Valley, CA (US);
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 ;
Abstract
Proactive and dynamic assistance is provided to a user of a computer system. In particular, the present invention provides a navigation model that integrates help information, task guide information, interactive wizard information or other user assistance information, for example, into a single user assistance system. Additionally, code for the user assistance system is maintained separately from code for an application program for the computer system.