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Instruction and/or identification input unit

  • US 6,335,726 B1
  • Filed: 11/08/1999
  • Issued: 01/01/2002
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/01/1997
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A shortcut input unit for providing telephone numbers to be dialed to a telephone, the unit comprising:

  • a. a touchpad for receiving a handwritten input pattern from a user;

    b. a shortcut library capable of receiving and storing a multiplicity of shortcut patterns wherein each shortcut patter has a telephone number associated therewith; and

    c. a trainable recognizer having a training mode and a recognition mode, wherein, in said training mode, said trainable recognizer associates telephone numbers received from said user with shortcut patterns received from said users via said touchpad and in said recognition mode, said trainable recognizer detects which of said multiplicity of shortcut patterns a handwritten input pattern received from said user most closely matches and provides the telephone number associated with the matched shortcut pattern to said telephone.

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