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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 03, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2008
Jason Eric Black, Redmond, WA (US);
Ashwini Varma, Redmond, WA (US);
Jason Eric Black, Redmond, WA (US);
Ashwini Varma, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for providing context sensitive help on an electronic device. The system include a processor, an application attributes discovery module which provides one or more attributes associated with an application running on the electronic device, a system state discovery module which provides system information associated with components of the electronic device, a help infrastructure module which uses the system information and application attributes to determine a help context at the time a user invokes a request for help, a help context mapping module which includes one or more help contexts including a context node that best matches the system state information and which contains one or more help topic identifiers that are mapped to help topics, a help topic collection module that provides one or more help topics corresponding to the help topic identifiers and a help viewer that displays the help topics.