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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 25, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 29, 2005
Dale Rogerson, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrew Reddish, Seattle, WA (US);
Sridhar Chandrashekar, Redmond, WA (US);
Justin Mcroberts, Seattle, WA (US);
Dale Rogerson, Seattle, WA (US);
Andrew Reddish, Seattle, WA (US);
Sridhar Chandrashekar, Redmond, WA (US);
Justin McRoberts, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system for presentation of help files on a computer with an operating system and a display is provided. Presentation-independent information associated with an application is stored on the computer. A help application is adapted to access the presentation-independent information based on user interactions and automatically to select between available rendering applications at runtime for displaying the presentation-independent information on the display.