Application assistance

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 7596754
APP PUB NO 20070028170A1
SERIAL NO

11192447

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An application assistance user interface guides, educates, and provides application functionality to a user to reach a goal that relates to their application. For example, a goal may be to provide marketing assistance while creating a publication using a publishing application. Rather than requiring the user to extensively search through menu items in order to complete the project and meet their goal, a user may selectively determine whether or not to perform any of the provided tasks within the application assistance user interface. The interface combines tasks within an interface that may be accessed by the user to complete at least a part of the goal. Selecting one of the tasks leads the user to application features, help topics, Web site locations, or to further tasks that may be used within the scenario to complete the goal.

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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
Russell, Mwanza N Redmond , US 1 16
Wessling, Cynthia D Redmond , US 6 87
Xiong, Yihua Bellevue , US 1 16

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