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Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015

Filed:

Jul. 16, 2014
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Albee Jhoney, Bangalore, IN;

Christopher V. Lazzaro, Austin, TX (US);

Arun Ramakrishnan, Chennai, IN;

Rohit Shetty, Bangalore, IN;

Nalini Vidapankal, Bangalore, IN;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4446 (2013.01); G06F 8/73 (2013.01);
Abstract

An approach is provided for providing cross product contextual help consolidating cross product contextual help. The approach is responsive to receiving a help request. The help request pertains to a first software product installed on the information handling system. The first software product interacts with a second software product that is also installed on the information handling system. The approach retrieves a first help contents from the first software product and a value from the second software product. The value is retrieved from the second software product using interfaces that were registered in a registry and uses linked data. Help information is presented to a user with the help information pertaining to the first application and including the first help contents retrieved from the first application and the value retrieved from the second application.


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