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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:
Apr. 30, 2002
Filed:
Oct. 20, 1998
Alice Chiang, Portola Valley, CA (US);
RamonaLisa P. Martinez, San Jose, CA (US);
Sheila I. Sholars, Hollister, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for reporting a context-sensitive comment to a pre-addressed destination is described. The method comprises the steps of invoking a help module from a software application, invoking a reporting module from the help module or directly from the software application, reading software application context information from the software application, presenting a user dialog based on the software application context information, accepting a comment in an input field in the user dialog, and transmitting the user report to a destination. The article of manufacture comprises a data storage device tangibly embodying instructions to perform the method steps described above. The apparatus comprises a reporting module for reading the software application context information and for presenting a user dialog with an input box for user comments, and a device for transmitting the user report to a destination.
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