Patent Document ID: 10031749
Application ID: 12172197

Base Claim:
1. A method for generating a context-specific help file using a computing device, the method comprising: causing the computing device to access a user model that models a software application related process, wherein the user model represents a network of related concepts, wherein the user model defines a plurality of objects and a plurality of linked relationships between the plurality of objects, wherein the user model provides a navigation model for a user to move between annotations and meta-model elements in a user interface, wherein the user model specifies requirements for the user interface, wherein the plurality of objects provide a plurality of menu lists as entry points to the context-specific help file, and wherein the software application related process is any of an install software task, an uninstall software task, or a refresh installed software task; causing the computing device to select a first object of the user model by the user in the user interface; causing the computing device to receive a text file corresponding with the first object; causing the computing device to create a first component of the context-specific help file from the text file; causing the computing device to select all additional objects of the user model not selected by the user and corresponding with the first component and to present at least one additional object to the user, the at least one additional object connected with the first object as defined by the user model; causing the computing device to give the at least one additional objects a new attribute with a stereotype of «help identifier»; and causing the computing device to create at least one additional component of the context-specific help file corresponding with the at least one additional object, wherein the at least one additional component comprises at least a link to a respective text file of the at least one additional object connected to the first object.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: detecting an underlying structural change to the user model; and automatically regenerating the context-specific help file to incorporate the underlying structural change without user intervention.