Method, system and computer readable medium for addressing handling from a computer program

• US 20020054092A1
• Filed: 08/06/2001
• Published: 05/09/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/1998
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Arendi S.A.R.L. (Arendi Holding LTD.)
• Original Assignee: Arendi Holding LTD.
• Inventors: Hedloy, Atle
• Granted Patent: US 7,496,854 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/748
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs

Abstract

A method, system and computer readable medium for providing for providing a function item, such as a key, button, icon, or menu, tied to a user operation in a computer, whereby a single click on the function item in a window or program on a computer screen, or one single selection in a menu in a program, initiates retrieval of name and addresses and/or other person or company related information, while the user works simultaneously in another program, e.g., a word processor. The click on the function item initiates a program connected to the button to search a database or file available on or through the computer, containing the person, company or address related data, in order to look up data corresponding to what the user types, or partly typed, e.g., name and/or address in the word processor, the correct data from the database, data related to the typed data, e.g., the name of the person, company, or the traditional or electronic address, or other person, or company, or address related data, and alternatively the persons, companies, or addresses, are displayed and possibly entered into the word processor, if such related data exists.

Claims

1. A method for information handling within a document created using a first application program comprising the steps of:

entering a first information in the first application program;

automatically marking the first information to alert the user that the first information can be utilized in a second application program; and

responding to a user selection by inserting a second information into the document, the second information associated with the first information from a second application program.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the user selection further comprises an activation of one of a touch screen, a keyboard button, an icon, a menu, and a voice command device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of inserting the second information into the document further comprises the steps of:

initializing the second application program;

searching, using the second application program, for the second information associated with the first information; and

retrieving the second information.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein when the second application program includes second information associated with the first information, performing the further step of displaying the second information.

5. The method of claim 4, further comprising the step of:

completing at least one of the first and second information in the document.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first information comprises a name.

7. A computer readable medium, including program instructions, for performing the method of claim 1.

8. Electromagnetic signals propagating over a computer network, the electromagnetic signals carrying information for practicing the method of claim 1.