Electronic typewriter or word processor with detection and/or correction of selected phrases
US5060154A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 31, 1990 |
| Grant date | Oct 22, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 31, 2010 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F40/247
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A word processing system or memory typewriter having a list of misused phrases together with alternative phrases for each misused phrase in the list and all stored in the memory. The memory includes a spelling Dictionary part and a phrase alert part which is responsive to the spelling dictionary part and including therein a list of alternative phrases both being available for comparison with the words and phrases being introduced into the system; a detection element for sensing entry of any phrase on the phrase alert list, a selectively enabled generator of a warning signal for the operator being activated in response to sensing entry of any of said phrases by said detection element; a first control responsive to pressing a discrete one of a depressible keys. The first control is operable to present in the display any phrase so detected along with alternative phrases therefore.
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