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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7366500 | SMS shorthand dictionary service The present invention provides a lookup service for shorthand terms directly from within an application. A lookup pane is provided to the user from which they can lookup a definition for the shorthand term. The lookup pane provides a consistent user interface for lo... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7356460 | Claim processing The disclosure includes a computer-implemented method of processing a claim. The method includes receiving information corresponding to a context free grammar expression of a provision governing claim adjudication, receiving information corresponding to a claim, and... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7350145 | Methods and systems for providing technology-assisted content development A computerized system and method for personalizing a document. In one embodiment, a user at a computer retrieves a first message comprising at least one change point from memory. A change point is a word or phrase which may be substituted for other words/phrases by ... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7349846 | Information processing apparatus, method, program, and storage medium for inputting a pronunciation symbol An information processing apparatus for inputting a pronunciation symbol corresponding to an English notation includes pronunciation symbol information holding means for holding pronunciation symbol information indicating a relationship between a predetermined alpha... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7343551 | Autocompleting form fields based on previously entered values Systems and techniques for autocompleting form fields based on observed values. In general, in one implementation, the techniques include observing values entered in form field objects, generating likelihood assessments for possible values to be entered in a current... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7319961 | Voice recognition technology to capture geoscience data A hands-free system for capturing data and generating reports recognizes speech as text and commands to create a set of entries intended to have a mathematical relationship to each other such that, if these entries fail to satisfy the relationship, a voice synthesiz... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7318019 | Word output device and matrix keyboard for use therein A keyboard utilizing a matrix arrangement of word, character, numerical (print medium) keys to enhance a standard print medium keyboard. Instead of utilizing keys with letters and numbers, and instead of utilizing iconic symbols (or for use in combination with iconi... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315902 | Compression and abbreviation for fixed length messaging A method, computer program product, and data processing system for compressing and abbreviating text messages at a first text messaging device for transport and subsequent interpretation at a second text messaging device is disclosed. A user-defined message length r... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7296229 | Method and apparatus for providing a central dictionary and glossary server A master dictionary or glossary is updated at a server, and the update to the master dictionary or glossary is served to the application on the client to update a local copy of the dictionary or glossary. A datastream may also be processed by automatically scanning ... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293231 | Data entry for personal computing devices In one aspect of the invention, the user can rapidly enter and search for text through a combination of entering one or more characters (a partial text entry) on a digitally displayed keyboard with a pointing device and using a search list to display a list of selec... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7236924 | Device for inputting names into navigation system and a corresponding navigation system for motor vehicles In a device for the entry of names into a navigation system, the selection probability is taken into consideration in entering the names. At least one statistically collected detail or a detail recorded by measurement technology concerning the local characteristics ... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7231601 | Application system with function for preventing modification A digital pen-based application form filling system with a modification prevention function, which eliminates a possibility that digital information initially written in digital paper using a digital pen may be modified deliberately or accidentally. The system print... | 06/12/2007 |
| 7218781 | System and method for chinese input using a joystick A Chinese text entry system and method is provided to allow users to enter a character to a device such as a cellular phone or a PDA by adding a first few strokes required for the character using a joystick or its equivalent. By simply moving the joystick to add one... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7196691 | Multi-key macros to speed data input Systems for initiating the execution of a macro by simultaneously depressing multiple keys and for reducing the misclassification of keyboard input by distinguishing between rollovers in normal typing and the simultaneous depression of two keys. Only keystrokes that... | 03/27/2007 |
| 7194404 | Linguistic retrieval system and method A system, method and article of manufacture utilize word chunks to enhance word prediction. At least one of selectable words and word chunks are displayed in response to receipt of an input character. Thereafter, a selection of a displayed word or word chunk is rece... | 03/20/2007 |
| 7185271 | Methods and systems for implementing auto-complete in a web page A computer-implemented method for facilitating auto-completion of user data input in a web page. The method includes receiving, during execution time of the web page, first user data input in a first data input field of the web page. The method also includes analyzi... | 02/27/2007 |
| 7181451 | Processing input text to generate the selectivity value of a word or word group in a library of texts in a field is related to the frequency of occurrence of that word or word group in library Disclosed is an automated system, machine-readable storage medium embodying computer-executable code, and method for generating descriptive words and optionally, multi-word groups derived from a digitally encoded, natural-language input text that describes a concept... | 02/20/2007 |
| 7177797 | Linguistic retrieval system and method A system, method and article of manufacture utilize word chunks to enhance word prediction. At least one of selectable words and word chunks are displayed in response to receipt of an input character. Thereafter, a selection of a displayed word or word chunk is rece... | 02/13/2007 |
| 7171353 | Grammar-based automatic data completion and suggestion for user input In a computer, a user interface allows users to input requests to various applications or software modules executing on the computer. During the input process, the invention presents to the user a grammar-based automatic completion of the user input so far, and/or a... | 01/30/2007 |
| 7168039 | Method and system for reducing the horizontal space required for displaying a column containing text data A method and system for reducing an amount of horizontal space required when displaying a plurality of columns on a display screen is disclosed. The at least one column of the plurality of columns has at least one entry containing text data. The method and system in... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7154415 | Celestial body communication techniques In a communication technique using the apparent distribution of stars and other celestial bodies visible from the earth to generate codes corresponding to communication characters such as the English alphabet and or Arabic numbers, the characters of a conventional k... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7152213 | System and method for dynamic key assignment in enhanced user interface An improved user interface for data input without the use of a standard keyboard is provided. Input is accepted through a data entry means such as a shuttle control system, a standard telephone keypad, or a speech recognition system. The data that is entered is sele... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7152244 | Techniques for detecting and preventing unintentional disclosures of sensitive data Protection is provided to prevent a computer user from unintentionally giving away sensitive data (e.g., security credentials, credit card number, PINs, personal data, or bank account number) to an illegitimate or unintended entity by means of a client application c... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7149970 | Method and system for filtering and selecting from a candidate list generated by a stochastic input method A computer-implemented method and system for correcting text input from a stochastic input source is provided. After a text component such as a word or phrase is identified as erroneous where, for example, the stochastic input source translated the input incorrectly... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7129932 | Keyboard for interacting on small devices A QWERTY-based cluster keyboard is disclosed. In the preferred embodiment, the keyboard comprises fourteen alphabet keys arranged such that all the letters in the alphabet are distributed in three rows of keys and in the standard QWERTY positions. Stochastic languag... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7131117 | Method and system for automating the analysis of word frequencies A method and system for automating the analysis of word frequencies includes a frequency system automatically analyzing a plurality of statements, a count engine, and a cluster engine. The count engine allows for the counting of unique words in the statements and th... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7127704 | Interactive software engineering tool with support for embedded lexical contexts In response to programmer input of a trigger token, a program editor creates a pair of boundary tokens encapsulating an embedded lexical context and positions an insertion point within the embedded lexical context. The operations on the embedded lexical context are ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7107528 | Automatic completion of dates The present invention relates to electronic information processing. In particular, it relates to a method and system for processing a document, which comprises text information, comprising monitoring the occurrence of incomplete time-related citations, in particular... | 09/12/2006 |
| 7092872 | Systems and methods for generating analytic summaries A technique for compressing texts such that referential integrity, sentence coherency, punctuation and readability are preserved and which provides for compression of sentence constituents based on the type of content, the informativity of the sentence constituent a... | 08/15/2006 |
| 7088345 | Keyboard system with automatic correction A method and system are defined which determine one or more alternate textual interpretations of each sequence of inputs detected within a designated auto-correcting keyboard region. The actual contact locations for the keystrokes may occur outside the boundaries of... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7088861 | System and method for chinese input using a joystick A Chinese text entry system and method is provided to allow users to enter a character to a device such as a cellular phone or a PDA by adding a first few strokes required for the character using a joystick or its equivalent. By simply moving the joystick to add one... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7072837 | Method for processing initially recognized speech in a speech recognition session In a speech recognition session, a method of speech processing utilizing a plurality of grammars can include a series of steps. The method can include spawning a separate thread of execution corresponding to each one of a plurality grammars and allocating a post-pro... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7054861 | Information search apparatus and method, and computer readable memory A search request input processing unit holds an input query word in a query word holding unit. An associative word unfolding processing unit acquires associative words in association with the query word held in the query word holding unit with reference to an associ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7043700 | Mobile client computer programmed to predict input A computer system preferably a mobile client computer, optimizes data handling and display through the use of predictive widgets. A predictive widget uses a predictive list of possible entries into a defined field of a form, as in a form filling application, to prov... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7035903 | Systems and methods for the discovery and presentation of electronic messages that are related to an electronic message The systems and methods of this invention nondisruptively provide the author of an electronic message with conversationally-related messages. Initially, a background search for conversationally-related messages is performed. Next, the conversationally-related messag... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7032174 | Automatically adding proper names to a database The correct spelling of resolved email names is automatically stored in a custom dictionary. Thereafter, a spell checker will recognize the name during the spell checking process, because the name is stored in the custom dictionary and the name will not be incorrect... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7030863 | Virtual keyboard system with automatic correction There is disclosed an enhanced text entry system which uses word-level analysis to correct inaccuracies automatically in user keystroke entries on reduced-size or virtual keyboards. A method and system are defined which determine one or more alternate textual interp... | 04/18/2006 |
| 7023364 | Medical keyboard A computer keyboard designed to facilitate and simplify a user's interaction with medical software applications includes color-coded key groups and function specific icons. One key group is associated with medical image display tasks such as, for example, the displa... | 04/04/2006 |
| 7017113 | Method and apparatus for removing redundant information from digital documents Method and apparatus for reconstructing new documents from a group of old ones by removing the existing redundant information. Redundant information (images, text paragraphs) from retrieved multimedia documents is removed. Each document consists of two main parts st... | 03/21/2006 |
| 7003446 | Grammar-based automatic data completion and suggestion for user input In a computer, a user interface allows users to input requests to various applications or software modules executing on the computer. During the input process, the invention presents to the user a grammar-based automatic completion of the user input so far, and/or a... | 02/21/2006 |