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A system for assisting a user in making decisions on a task through the asking of questions about the task and providing answer choices to the questions for the user. The system includes a set of question procedures which include a reference to another procedure and also answer procedures which incl

A system for assisting a user in making decisions on a task through the asking of questions about the task and providing answer choices to the questions for the user. The system includes a set of question procedures which include a reference to another procedure and also answer procedures which include references to other procedures. Questions are dynamically generated by executing a question procedure which, in turn, calls a referenced procedure to generate a result based on one or more previous answers by the user. The referenced procedure passes the result to the question procedure for use in generating the question. The same process is used for dynamically generating answer choices for the questions. The referenced procedures may include, among others things, fetches of previous answers, conditional statements that choose among possible results based on a previous answer, or references to still other procedures. With this system, the questions and answers are kept current as the user moves through them. Advice for the questions and answer choices may also be dynamically generated.

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[ We claim:] [1.] A computer-readable medium on which is stored a computer program for managing a presentation to a user of questions and answer choices, the program comprising:instructions for generating a question for presentation to the user by executing a question procedure that includes a refer

[ We claim:] [1.] A computer-readable medium on which is stored a computer program for managing a presentation to a user of questions and answer choices, the program comprising:instructions for generating a question for presentation to the user by executing a question procedure that includes a reference to another procedure that takes into account an answer given by the user to another question, the referenced procedure generating content literally different from but based on an analysis of one or more previous answers entered by the user, the referenced procedure providing the content to the question procedure for use in generating the presented question; andinstructions for generating answer choices for the presented question for presentation to the user,whereby the instructions for generating questions and answer choices are repeated in response to answers entered by a user until all questions material to completing the presentation are asked and answered, taking into account answers given by the user in generating additional questions.