Patent 7308678 was granted and assigned to Microsoft on December, 2007 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The information exchanging facility is used by one wizard page to request the information it needs although it need not know where the information may have come from. This allows wizard pages that have already been developed in one wizard to be reused and placed into new wizards. This information exchanging facility is part of an architectural software framework that aids in the design of an interactive help utility, such as a wizard, that guides a user through steps of a particular task.