Patent Document ID: 5542024
Application ID: 07910814

Base Claim:
1. An information processing system for enabling a non computer-literature expert having knowledge (developer) to develop an expert system for computer assisted instructions for a use, said information processing system comprising: (a) a decision network having a plurality of interconnected knowledge records, each of said inter-connected knowledge records including at least one alphanumeric display area for displaying questions or instructions entered by the developer, and a plurality of options which are entered by the developer to be selected by the user in response to said questions or instructions; (b) a Graphical User Interface for displaying said plurality of inter-connected knowledge records, each record representing a decision node in the expert system, said Graphical User Interface reporting an option selection when an option is selected by the user of said information processing system; (c) a first means for managing said knowledge records; (d) a command module for receiving said option selection from the Graphical User Interface in response to a selection by the user at the displayed knowledge record, and generating an instruction command for the first means in response thereto, said command module generating instructions for said Graphical User Interface to generate a screen display in response to said option selection; whereby knowledge is entered by the developer on a plurality of knowledge records in the form of alphanumeric text and sequential user options in which the decision network of knowledge records represents the knowledge of the developer.

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Claim 21:
21. The information processing system according to claim 1, which further includes means for creating a note data base record to be linked to a currently displayed decision node in the expert system in response to the selection of a write representative icon displayed by said Graphical User Interface.