Patent ID: 6920613

Claim:
An informational system for a graphical user interface comprising: a plurality of video objects, wherein each video object corresponds to at least one of a plurality of faults of an operational system, and wherein each video object comprises a plurality of video segments; a plurality of text objects, wherein each text object corresponds to at least one of the plurality of faults of the operational system, and wherein each text object comprises a plurality of text steps; a bi-directional linkage system wherein each of said video segments is linked to one of said text steps and each of said text steps is linked to one of said video segments; a video window for displaying said video segments of a selected video object; and a text window for displaying one or more of said text steps of a selected text object wherein said informational system is configured to utilize said bi-directional linkage system to display a linked video segment when a corresponding text step is selected in said text window, and display a linked text step when a corresponding video segment is selected in said video window.