History sensitive help control method and system
US5485544A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Feb 15, 1990 |
| Grant date | Jan 16, 1996 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 15, 2010 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/453
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A system which comprises a message data base for storing help messages, a history buffer for storing the past statuses of an interactive processing system, an inference engine for determining a help message to be outputted, and a rule data base for storing the rules for determining a help message by said inference engine, determines an output help message on the basis of at least the past status history using said inference engine, furthermore outputs a help message by a user's command, selects a message data base to be used by the system at that time from a plurality of message data bases, or selects a rule data base to be used by the system at that time from a plurality of said rule data bases
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