User guidance data for establishing a desired end-state configuration
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAl Chakra, Liam Harpur, Sumit Patel
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for generating and presenting, to an end user, user guidance data for achieving a desired end-state device or application configuration. End-state configuration source data may be provided to an application component. The application component may determine a desired end-state configuration from the source data, and may further determine a navigation path for transitioning from a current configuration state to the desired end-state configuration. The application component may then generate user guidance data to guide the user through the navigation path.
Claims7
A method for generating user guidance data for achieving a desired end-state configuration, the method comprising:
- receiving, from an end user, input data;
- parsing the input data to obtain parsed data, the parsed data indicating the desired end-state configuration of an application;
- determining, based at least in part on the parsed data, a set of one or more intermediate configuration states between a current configuration state of the application and the desired end-state configuration;
- generating user guidance data based at least in part on the current configuration state, the set of one or more intermediate configuration states, and the desired end-state configuration;
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- presenting the user guidance data to the end user, wherein presenting the user guidance data to the end user comprises causing the application to transition automatically between at least two configuration states without requiring input from the end user to cause the transition.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.