Automatic dynamic contextual data entry completion system
First Claim
1. A method, performed in a character entry system, for interrelating character strings so that incomplete input character strings can be completed by a selection of a presented character string, the method comprising:
- computing contextual associations between multiple character strings based upon occurrence of character strings in documents present in the character entry system wherein the computing contextual associations comprises;
i) identifying pertinent documents present in the system,ii) creating a list of unique character strings contained within the pertinent documents,iii) for each document,a) counting occurrences of each unique character string andb) storing an occurrence number interrelating pertinent documents to occurrences of character strings within the pertinent documents,iv) for each possible pair of pertinent documents, calculating a similarity value representing contextual similarity between one of the pertinent documents in the pair to the other of the documents in the pair,v) forming two or more groups of documents such thata) the similarity value of each document in the group is above a threshold value with respect to a specified portion of the other documents in the group, andb) each group will be differentiable from every other group by at least one document, andvi) creating a list of unique character strings for each group of documents making up the two or more groups so that the created lists represent the computed contextual associations; and
in response to inputting of a specified threshold of individual characters, identifying at least one selectable character string from among the computed contextual associations that can complete the incomplete input character string in context;
providing the identified at least one selectable character string to a user for selection; and
receiving, in the system, the user'"'"'s selection and completing the incomplete input character string based upon the selection.
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Abstract
A method, performed in a character entry system, for interrelating character strings so that incomplete input character strings can be completed by a selection of a presented character string involves computing contextual associations between multiple character strings based upon co-occurrence of character strings relative to each other in documents present in the character entry system, in response to inputting of a specified threshold of individual characters, identifying at least one selectable character string from among the computed contextual associations that can compete the incomplete input character string in context; and providing the identified at least one selectable character string to a user for selection.
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12 Claims
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1. A method, performed in a character entry system, for interrelating character strings so that incomplete input character strings can be completed by a selection of a presented character string, the method comprising:
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computing contextual associations between multiple character strings based upon occurrence of character strings in documents present in the character entry system wherein the computing contextual associations comprises; i) identifying pertinent documents present in the system, ii) creating a list of unique character strings contained within the pertinent documents, iii) for each document, a) counting occurrences of each unique character string and b) storing an occurrence number interrelating pertinent documents to occurrences of character strings within the pertinent documents, iv) for each possible pair of pertinent documents, calculating a similarity value representing contextual similarity between one of the pertinent documents in the pair to the other of the documents in the pair, v) forming two or more groups of documents such that a) the similarity value of each document in the group is above a threshold value with respect to a specified portion of the other documents in the group, and b) each group will be differentiable from every other group by at least one document, and vi) creating a list of unique character strings for each group of documents making up the two or more groups so that the created lists represent the computed contextual associations; and in response to inputting of a specified threshold of individual characters, identifying at least one selectable character string from among the computed contextual associations that can complete the incomplete input character string in context; providing the identified at least one selectable character string to a user for selection; and receiving, in the system, the user'"'"'s selection and completing the incomplete input character string based upon the selection. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method, performed in a character entry system, for interrelating character strings so that an incomplete input character string, that is part of a series of input character strings which establish a context for the incomplete input character string, can be completed by a selection of a presented character string, the method comprising:
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computing contextual associations between multiple character strings based upon co-occurrence of character strings relative to each other in documents present in the character entry system wherein the contextual associations are computed by; i) identifying pertinent documents in the system, ii) creating a list of unique character strings from contents of all the pertinent documents, iii) uniquely pairing each unique character string with every other unique character string in the list and, for each pair of unique character strings, counting a frequency of co-occurrence of the pair within a unit of each pertinent document, and iv) storing the frequency for each pair; in response to inputting of a specified threshold of individual characters, identifying at least one selectable character string from among the computed contextual associations that can complete the incomplete input character string in context by combining the frequencies of at least two pairs each formed by the computed contextual associations and at least two character strings in the series, other than the incomplete character string; and providing the identified at least one selectable character string to a user for selection; and receiving, in the system, the user'"'"'s selection and completing the incomplete input character string based upon the selection. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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