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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 19, 2006
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2003
Jonathan Cannon Gordon, Redmond, WA (US);
Timothy Rand Sullivan, Seattle, WA (US);
Justin Shane Mcroberts, Seattle, WA (US);
Scott R. Swanson, Redmond, WA (US);
Alex Aben-athar Kipman, Duvall, WA (US);
Madhavi Lakamsani, Bellevue, WA (US);
Paul Glenn Mckee, Redmond, WA (US);
Saurabh Jain, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dale Elton Rogerson, Seattle, WA (US);
Octavia Petrovici, Seattle, WA (US);
Jonathan Cannon Gordon, Redmond, WA (US);
Timothy Rand Sullivan, Seattle, WA (US);
Justin Shane McRoberts, Seattle, WA (US);
Scott R. Swanson, Redmond, WA (US);
Alex Aben-Athar Kipman, Duvall, WA (US);
Madhavi Lakamsani, Bellevue, WA (US);
Paul Glenn McKee, Redmond, WA (US);
Saurabh Jain, Bellevue, WA (US);
Dale Elton Rogerson, Seattle, WA (US);
Octavia Petrovici, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The aforementioned need is satisfied by the present invention in which a help architecture supports an application and a help engine operating on a computer, where the help engine is for locating help topics relevant to the application. In the help architecture, at least one help library stores a plurality of help topics therein, where the help topics are accessible to a user from the help library by way of the computer, and a central store stores topic metadata corresponding to help topics available from each help library. The central store in response to a search request from the help engine locates topic metadata relevant to the search request and returns information from the located topic metadata.