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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 22, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 21, 2010
Gordon R. Meyer, San Jose, CA (US);
Albert R. Howard, Jr., Fremont, CA (US);
Kevin Knabe, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard B. Hoiberg, Gilroy, CA (US);
Gordon R. Meyer, San Jose, CA (US);
Albert R. Howard, Jr., Fremont, CA (US);
Kevin Knabe, San Jose, CA (US);
Richard B. Hoiberg, Gilroy, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems are disclosed for displaying information topics that are available via an online help system. The methods and systems store information for given topics in a respective folder associated with a given topic, detect the selection of one of the folders associated with a topic of interest, search files at a hierarchical level in the selected folder to identify files of a predetermined type, locate HTML metatags that pertain to the display of help information, merge data associated with the HTML metatags into a HTML template file to generate an HTML file containing data associated with each of the located HTML metatags, and provide a table of contents for the topic of interest associated with the selected folder using the generated HTML file.