Patent ID: 7797353
Filing Date: 2010-09-14
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for enhancing software documentation and help system for software tools of various tool suites from a plurality of software releases, comprising: selecting a combination of tools from said plurality of software releases for a design project, said plurality of software releases comprising a plurality of available tools, said selected combination of tools comprising less than all of said plurality of available tools, one or more of said plurality of available tools associated with one or more documents in an actual library of documents for the plurality of available tools; creating, by using a processor, a virtual library for the design project based at least in part upon a combination of documents from the actual library of documents, the combination of documents within the virtual library corresponding to the combination of tools selected from the plurality of software releases and providing access to only the one or more documents associated with tools in said selected combination of tools, wherein the virtual library is not based upon actual copying of the one or more documents to form an actual collection of documents and the virtual library for the design project is linked to the selected combination of tools, wherein the act of creating the virtual library comprises: linking said virtual library to said tools in said selected combination of tools; and storing the virtual library for the design project in a volatile or non-volatile computer readable medium or displaying the virtual library on a display device.