HYPERLINK GENERATION AND ENHANCED SPELL CHECK METHOD, PRODUCT, APPARATUS, AND USER INTERFACE SYSTEM

• US 20050235031A1
• Filed: 09/08/2000
• Published: 10/20/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/10/1999
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: MEC Management, LLC (Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota)
• Original Assignee: MEC Management, LLC (Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota)
• Inventors: Heintz, Daniel V, Schneider, Eric
• Application Number:
  US09/658,434
• Publication Number:
  US 20050235031A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/131 Fragmentation of text files, e.g. creating reusable text-blocks; Linking to fragments, e.g. using XInclude; Namespaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/134 Hyperlinking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/232 Orthographic correction, e.g. spell checking or vowelisation

Abstract

Abstract of the Disclosure

For each word, a spell check program may determine whether the spelling is correct. If the spelling is correct and an EOF has not been reached, then the next word may be parsed from the current data file. When the spelling is not correct, then it may further be determined whether the word includes a HLD. When it is determined that the word is not a HLD, then a user is prompted to correct the spelling. When it is determined that the word includes a HLD then it may be determined whether the word is to be linked. If the word is to be converted into a link then a hyperlink reference is generated from the word and steps are repeated until an EOF is reached or the next word includes a HLD.

Claims

1. A word processing method for processing text including one or more words comprising:

starting a spell check type program for evaluating said one or more words;

determining that a word of said one or more words includes an error, said word including at least one of a spelling error, grammatical error, and punctuation error;

determining whether said word including said error is one of a uniform resource locator (URL) and fully qualified domain name (FQDN); and

, said spell check type program automatically displaying an enhanced spell check type user interface, said user interface providing a user an ability to correct said word including said at least one of a spelling error, grammatical error, and punctuation error and said user interface further providing said user an ability to construct a hyperlink including said error in response to said determining that said word including said error is neither said URL nor said FQDN wherein said hyperlink includes a label and a hyperlink reference, said label including said error and said hyperlink reference capable of accessing a network resource corresponding to at least one of a word and error.

2. The method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said determining that said word includes said error includes determining that said word starts and ends with a word delimiter.

3. The method, as set forth in claim 2, wherein said determining that said word starts and ends with said word delimiter includes receiving an input character and determining that said input character is said word delimiter.

4. The method, as set forth in claim 2, wherein said word delimiter is represented by a spacebar symbol.

5. The method, as set forth in claim 2, further including determining that said word includes at least one punctuation period symbol wherein said at least one punctuation period symbol is positioned between said start and end of said word.

6. The method, as set forth in claim 5, further including determining that said word including said at least one of a punctuation period symbol includes a fictitious domain name (FDN) including a top level domain alias and said user interface further providing said user an ability to construct said label from said FDN and construct said hyperlink reference including a resolvable domain name corresponding to said network resource, said resolvable domain name including at least a portion of said FDN.

7. The method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said enhanced spell check type user interface includes at least one user interface element configured to allow said user to construct said hyperlink by choosing from at least one of a hyperlink reference method operation, and hyperlink label method operation.

8. The method, as set forth in claim 1, wherein said enhanced spell check type user interface includes user modifiable configuration settings.

9. A word processing method comprising:

inputting a symbol and determining that said symbol is a word delimiter positioned at an end of a word, said word including one or more symbols;

accessing a spell check type program for evaluating said word;

determining that said word includes an error, said word including at least one of a spelling error, grammatical error, and punctuation error;

determining whether said word including said error is one of a uniform resource locator (URL) and fully qualified domain name (FQDN); and

, said spell check type program automatically displaying an enhanced spell check type user interface, said user interface providing a user an ability to correct said word including said at least one of a spelling error, grammatical error, and punctuation error and said user interface further providing said user an ability to construct a hyperlink including said error in response to said determining that said word including said error is neither said URL nor said FQDN wherein said hyperlink includes a label and a hyperlink reference, said label including said error and said hyperlink reference capable of accessing a network resource corresponding to at least one of a word and error.

10. The method, as set forth in claim 9, wherein said determining that said word includes said error includes determining that said word starts and ends with a word delimiter.

11. The method, as set forth in claim 10, wherein said word delimiter is represented by a spacebar symbol.

12. The method, as set forth in claim 10, further including determining that said word includes at least one punctuation period symbol wherein said at least one punctuation period symbol is positioned between said start and end of said word.

13. The method, as set forth in claim 12, further including determining that said word including said at least one of a punctuation period symbol includes a fictitious domain name (FDN) including a top level domain alias and said user interface further providing said user an ability to construct said label from said FDN and construct said hyperlink reference including a resolvable domain name corresponding to said network resource, said resolvable domain name including at least a portion of said FDN.

14. The method, as set forth in claim 9, wherein said enhanced spell check type user interface includes at least one user interface element configured to allow said user to construct said hyperlink by choosing from at least one of a hyperlink reference method operation, and hyperlink label method operation.

15. The method, as set forth in claim 9, wherein said enhanced spell check type user interface includes user modifiable configuration settings.

16. A word processing method comprising:

selecting a word to convert into a hyperlink, said hyperlink including a hyperlink reference and a hyperlink label wherein said word includes one of a uniform resource locator (URL), fully qualified domain name (FQDN), domain name, fictitious domain name (FDN), and multilingual domain name (MDN);

displaying a hyperlink tool including a user interface, said user interface including at least one user interface element configured to allow a user to generate a hyperlink label from said word;

choosing a hyperlink label type from said user interface element, said hyperlink label type selected from a group including a uniform resource locator (URL) label type, fully qualified domain name (FQDN) label type, fictitious domain name (FDN) label type, multilingual domain name (MDN) label type, domain name label type, and custom label type wherein each said hyperlink label type corresponds to a hyperlink label method;

automatically generating said hyperlink label and said hyperlink reference from said hyperlink label method corresponding to said selected hyperlink label type; and

, converting said word into said hyperlink including said generated hyperlink reference and said generated hyperlink label.

17. The method, as set forth in claim 16, wherein said word includes one of a FDN and MDN further including said hyperlink label method accessing one of a FDN and MDN resolution method for converting said FDN into said hyperlink reference.

18. The method, as set forth in claim 17, wherein said accessing said one of a FDN and MDN resolution method is accessed from one of a table and FDN/MDN registry.

19. The method, as set forth in claim 17, wherein said hyperlink reference includes a resolvable domain name and at least a portion of said one of a FDN and MDN.

20. The method, as set forth in claim 16, further including a spell check type program selecting said word to convert into said hyperlink.