Patent ID: 11934852
Assignee: TRIMBLE SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A computer implemented method comprising:
running, for at least a model of one or more physical structures, wherein a model object in the model represents at least a piece of a physical structure, a modeling application comprising a plurality of predefined criteria for automatic help;
monitoring, at least for the automatic help, user interface actions to the modeling application;
determining level of expertise of a user;
retrieving, in response to detecting that consecutive user interface actions fulfill at least one predefined criterion for the automatic help, using at least portion of the consecutive user interface actions and the level of expertise of the user, help content from online helping information comprising at least helping information of the modeling application and helping information created by user community of the modeling application, wherein the at least one predefined criterion for the automatic help depends on the level of expertise of the user; and
outputting, by a computing device, the help content retrieved, wherein the modeling application is associated with a license and is an application in which there are a plurality of ways to define model objects, and determining the level of expertise of the user comprises at least one of:
determining a type of the license;
determining a time the user has had the license;
determining a time the user has used the modeling application; or
determining, based on the user interface actions, the way the model objects are defined.