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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2011
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2007
Simon S. Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothy W. Strickland, San Francisco, CA (US);
Philip Guindi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Britt Miura, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Simon S. Chen, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothy W. Strickland, San Francisco, CA (US);
Philip Guindi, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Britt Miura, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Adobe Systems, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A computer system executes a host application that generates a graphical user interface for display on a respective user's display screen. In addition to executing the host application, the computer system (or other computer) provides an environment for executing a so-called help agent (e.g., a plug-in module) associated with the host application. The help agent can initiate display of a help window along with a graphical user interface displayed by the host application. Depending on the embodiment, the help agent can provide one or more functions such as retrieval and display of help information links in the help window to different types of help information, application of commands to the graphical user interface application via input with respect to the help window, and viewing of application hint information in the help window.