CONTEXTUAL USER ASSISTANCE FOR CLOUD SERVICES

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20140245141A1
SERIAL NO

13777947

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To provide contextual user assistance for cloud services, an assistance panel is presented as part of the cloud service portal and is available in the user interface of the portal. The assistance panel can provide contextual assistance based on current user information, including task or error messages, as well as product name and user role. The assistance panel provides assistance functions including a search function, a browse syndicated community content function, and a post to a community forum function within the cloud service portal and can transform to accommodate the functions. For the browse function, the assistance panel uses the current user information to dynamically update a list of syndicated community content that can potentially match the user's needs as the user navigates to different pages presented in the portal. A content curator tool can be used to control and prioritize the content surfaced by the browse function.

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MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLCONE MICROSOFT WAY REDMOND WA 98052

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Daly, Serena Kirkland, US 1 48
Rasmussen, Matthew Tyler Josiah Maple Valley, US 5 84
Yeh, Erh-Chun Newcastle, US 5 88

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