Automatic invocation of computational resources without user intervention
AssigneeRicoh Company, Ltd.
InventorsPeter Hart, Jamey Graham
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Abstract
A system is described for automatically invoking computational resources without intervention or request from a user of the system. In the system a query-free information retrieval system is described in which the exact technical documentation contained in existing user or other technical manuals is provided to a user investigating apparatus having a fault. The user enters symptoms based upon the user's analysis of the apparatus, and in response the system provides information concerning likely faults with the apparatus. As the symptoms are entered, the relative value of individual faults is determined and related to the symptoms they cause. The user can then select technical information relating to probable faults in the system.
Claims22
A system for dynamically invoking a computational resource for a user comprising:
- means for operating for the user a base application such that the computational resource is external to the base application;
- means for receiving into the base application a series of user interactions which establish a context;
- and
- means for in response to the series of user interactions dynamically instructing, responsive to the context, the computational resource to perform selected computational operations.
In a data processing system, a method for dynamically generating a result responsive to a series of user interactions comprising the steps of:
- operating a base application and a computational resource external to the base application;
- receiving, using the base application, the series of user interactions;
- monitoring a context defined by the series of user interactions;
- dynamically constructing an instruction to the computational resource responsive to the context;
- executing, using the computational resource, the instruction to generate a result;
- and
- displaying the result.
In a data processing system, a method for accessing information comprising the steps of:
- operating a base application that receives a sequence of user inputs;
- operating a computational resource external to the base application;
- monitoring the context defined by the sequence of user inputs to the base application;
- dynamically constructing a query to the computational resource responsive to the context;
- searching with the computational resource, using the query, for information relevant to the context;
- and
- displaying information discovered in said searching step.
A method for dynamically invoking a computational resource for a user comprising:
- operating a base application external to the computational resource;
- receiving into the base application a series of user interactions which establish a context;
- and
- dynamically instructing in response to the series of user interactions, responsive to the context, the computational resource to perform selected computational operations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.