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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2010
Igor Zaika, Seattle, WA (US);
Ned B. Friend, Seattle, WA (US);
Erez Kikin-gil, Redmond, WA (US);
Matthew J. Kotler, Sammamish, WA (US);
Charles W. Parker, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jesse Clay Satterfield, Seattle, WA (US);
Marta Rey-babarro, Seattle, WA (US);
Igor Zaika, Seattle, WA (US);
Ned B. Friend, Seattle, WA (US);
Erez Kikin-Gil, Redmond, WA (US);
Matthew J. Kotler, Sammamish, WA (US);
Charles W. Parker, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jesse Clay Satterfield, Seattle, WA (US);
Marta Rey-Babarro, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An electronic personal assistant that uses task information to obtain task performance assistance and help content is provided. Tasks from an electronic tasks application may be utilized by the personal assistant application to search a variety of information sources for task performance functionality and help content related to the tasks. The personal assistant may provide functionality to help a user actually perform a given task. Alternatively, once help content is obtained, a new task may be generated or the related task may be modified to provide the help content or to provide a link to the help content. The personal assistant application may provide the help content in a separate user interface or cause an application from which the help content is obtained to be launched.