CHARACTER MANIPULATION

• US 20100265257A1
• Filed: 06/28/2010
• Published: 10/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 11/24/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Mowatt, David, Chambers, Robert, Andrew, Felix GTI
• Granted Patent: US 8,082,145 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/467
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/167 Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 2015/221 Announcement of recognition results

Abstract

Embodiments for manipulating characters displayed on a display screen are provided, wherein one example method includes identifying a selected word, wherein the selected word includes at least one character to be modified. The method further includes correlating each of the at least one character with a unique numerical value and receiving a selection command and a modification command, wherein the selection command is the unique numerical value corresponding to a selected character. Furthermore, the method includes modifying the selected character responsive to the modification command to generate a modified word.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

identifying a word that includes one or more modifiable characters;

correlating one or more different numerical values with each of the one or more modifiable characters; and

causing an indication of the one or more different numerical values to be displayed, the indication being selectable to cause at least one of the one or more modifiable characters to be modified.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein identifying the word is responsive to an audio selection of the word.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein identifying the word is responsive to a command to modify the word.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein each of the different numerical values comprises a unique numerical value.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein causing the indication of the one or more different numerical values to be displayed comprises causing the one or more different numerical values to be displayed adjacent to a displayed version of the word.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving an indication of a selection of one or more of the different numerical values; and

modifying one or more of the modifiable characters responsive to the selection.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein modifying the one or more of the modifiable characters causes the one or more of the modifiable characters to be changed to a different character.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 6, wherein modifying the one or more of the modifiable characters causes at least one of:

the one or more modifiable characters to be deleted;

or

an additional character to be inserted adjacent to the one or more modifiable characters.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising causing one or more suggested modifications to the word to be displayed.

10. A computer-implemented method comprising:

assigning one or more unique values to each of one or more characters of a word; and

indicating selectability of the one or more unique values, the one or more unique values being selectable to cause one or more of the characters to be modified.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein the one or more unique values comprise one or more numerical values.

12. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein assigning the one or more unique values to each of the one or more characters of the word is responsive to an audio selection of the word.

13. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, wherein indicating selectability of the one or more unique values comprises causing the one or more unique values to be displayed adjacent to the one or more characters of the word.

14. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising:

receiving a selection of one or more of the unique values; and

causing one or more of the characters to be modified.

15. The computer-implemented method of claim 10, further comprising indicating a suggested modification for the one or more of the characters, the suggested modification being selectable to modify the one or more of the characters.

16. One or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to:

correlate values with characters of a word, each of the values being a different value and being associated with a single character of the characters;

receive an indication of a selection of one of the values; and

cause one of the characters to be modified responsive to the indication of the selection of the one of the values.

17. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 16, wherein one or more of the values comprise numerical values.

18. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 16, wherein the computer-executable instructions, when executed by the computing device, further cause the computing device to receive the indication of the selection of the one of the values via audio input to the computing device.

19. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 16, wherein the computer-executable instructions, when executed by the computing device, further cause the computing device to correlate the values with the characters of the word by displaying a list of suggested modifications to the characters of the word.

20. The one or more computer-readable media of claim 16, wherein the computer-executable instructions, when executed by the computing device, further cause the computing device to cause one of the characters to be modified by replacing the one of the characters with a different character.