Process for writing e-mail and text on portable devises and a simplified key board with multi-dimensional switches for this process

• US 20050102367A1
• Filed: 11/12/2003
• Published: 05/12/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/12/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Frank W. Johnson
• Original Assignee: Frank W. Johnson
• Inventors: Johnson, Frank W.
• Application Number:
  US10/705,089
• Publication Number:
  US 20050102367A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/207
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]

Abstract

A word processing system where you send voice dictation to the base station and it is turned into text by the base station voice to text system. The text is returned to the portable communication devise for final editing and then sent to the addressee. The second part of this patent is a simplified, multi-directional, small, keyboard utilizing either forward or back keys or forward, back, left, and right keys. You can also add the usual key movement of down, for a fifth motion. In this way you have enough key motions to record as many of the characters as you want, though you may need several simultaneous key strokes.

Claims

1. A word processing system for e-mail and other text that has

a. a remote, usually mobile input system, and

b. a base station that is usually fixed, and has higher processing power than the remote input, and

c. the remote devise is used for dictating, and the base station is used to convert the voice to text by a sophisticated voice-text system, and

d. the signal may be sent out to its destination or returned to the remote devise, and corrected, and then sent out to the recipient, and

e. the remote base devise performs other tasks, such as storage, classification, of the messages and other instruction, etc., and

2. A keyboard, with multi-directional switches, that is an input devise where each key has

a. knob that is easily identified by touch, and

b. is usually far enough from the next knob so that pushing one knob will not engage its neighbor, and

c. the shaft will activate a switch in either 2 (forward and back) or 4 (forward, back, left, or right) directions, and

d. it may also be activated by also by pushing in for a total of 5 alternatives, and

e. the key may be on the side of the pad or either/or the holding hand or the keying hand, and

f. The shafts with the knobs may be anchored and pivoted either at the surface, with the switches below or at the base with the switches between the pivot and the surface. These again are questions of design and not fundamental to this switching process.