Word processing device with an automatic address-input function

• US 5,121,484 A
• Filed: 07/19/1989
• Issued: 06/09/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 07/22/1988
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Sugimoto, Hiroki, Hirami, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): Fleming, Michael R.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Auve, Glenn A.
• Application Number:
  US07/382,234
• Time in Patent Office: 1,056 Days
• Field of Search: 364/200, 364/900, 364/943.43, 364/943, 364/401, 364/478, 364/464.03
• US Class Current: 715/210
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs

Abstract

A word processing device with an automatic address-input function comprises a keyboard for inputting a postal code and address; a memory for storing the postal code and address inputted from the keyboard, in correlation with each other; and a processing unit for retrieving a postal code identical with the postal code inputted from the keyboard among postal codes stored in the, memory, for reading an address corresponding to the retrieved postal code from the memory and for making the memory store the address in correlation with a postal code inputted from the keyboard.

Claims

1. A word processing device with an automatic address-input function, comprising:

key input means manually operable for sequentially inputting a plurality of data sets each comprising first a postal code and then a related address;

storage means connected to said key input means for storing each said postal code as a stored postal code and the related address as a stored related address in indexed relation to each other as each said postal code and related address are entered from said key input means to thereby define a single data set stored in said storage means, said storage means having a related address input location;

retrieving means connected to said storage means for retrieving from said storage means, as each said postal code is newly inputted from said key input means, a stored postal code identical with the newly inputted postal code from among the postal codes which have been previously inputted and stored by said storage means; and

writing means for automatically entering an address related to said newly inputted postal code into an address input location in said storage means, said writing means comprising;

read-out means connected to said storage means for reading out from said storage means a read-out address comprising said stored address related to the retrieved stored identical postal code; and

copying means for copying the read-out address from said read-out means into said storage means at said related address input location so as to relate the read-out address with the newly inputted postal code and thereby define a new data set in said storage means, so that manual inputting from said key input means of an address related to the newly inputted postal code is avoided where said storage means already contains a data set having a postal code identical to the newly inputted postal code.

2. The device according to claim 1 further comprising display means connected to said storage means for visually displaying the postal code and the related address stored in said storage means.

3. The device according to claim 1, wherein said storage means further comprises counting means for numerically counting the postal codes inputted from said key input means and for generating a count number corresponding to the number counted, and character generating means for generating and storing an asterisk character at the beginning of a stored character string indicating the beginning of said stored character string, said character string containing character data representing the postal code and the related address, said data having a data format consisting of a count number, a first return character, a first group of characters representing a postal code, a second return character, a second group of characters representing a related address, and a third return character, so that when a postal code and related address are inputted from said key input means, the postal code and related address are stored in indexed relation to each other.

4. The device according to claim 3, wherein said retrieving means further comprises means for retrieving a related address from said storage means by sequentially searching for an asterisk character at the beginning of said character string stored in said storage means when a postal code is inputted from said key input means, recognizing said first group of characters between said first and said second return characters of said character string as a postal code and then comparing said first group of characters with the newly inputted postal code so that a stored postal code and the related address identical with the newly inputted postal code are retrieved from among postal codes and related addresses previously stored in said storage means.

5. The device according to claim 4, wherein said writing means further comprises means for recognizing said second group of characters between said second and said third return characters of said character string as a related address related to the retrieved postal code and for copying the related address to said related address input location in said storage means, so that the related address related to the retrieved postal code is stored in said storage means in said related address input location in indexed relation to the newly inputted postal code.