Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery – Data processing system error or fault handling – Reliability and availability
Patent
1997-10-09
2000-02-22
Wright, Norman Michael
Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery
Data processing system error or fault handling
Reliability and availability
714 47, 714 48, 714 26, G06F 1540
Patent
active
06029258&
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for trouble shooting and correcting computer software problems. A Trouble Shooting System is launched onto a computer when a user of a software application encounters a problem during use of that software application. The Trouble Shooting System includes a Character Interface, a Trouble Shooting Program, and an Internet-based Trouble Shooting site and server. The Character Interface allows the user to select from a menu of problems, or the user may type into the Character Interface a natural language string to identify the problem. The Trouble Shooting Program generates offset values corresponding to the problem identified by the user. The Trouble Shooting program uses the offset values to locate problem solutions in an Information Store of problem solutions. The problem solutions located in the Information Store are passed to the user for implementation of a correction of the problem. If no solution is found in the Information Store, the Trouble Shooting Program may connect the user's computer to the remote Internet-based Trouble Shooting site and server to obtain and download additional problem solutions and tools to the Information Store on the user's computer. If a solution to the problem continues to evade the user, the Trouble Shooting Program then may recommend that the user contact the product support services of the provider of the user's malfunctioning software application.
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Microsoft Corporation
Wright Norman Michael
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