Dynamic language text generation system and method

• US 7,721,222 B1
• Filed: 06/10/2009
• Issued: 05/18/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2009
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cheman Shaik
• Original Assignee: Cheman Shaik
• Inventors: Shaik, Cheman
• Primary Examiner(s): Lo, Weilun
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tran, Tuyetlien T
• Application Number:
  US12/481,729
• Time in Patent Office: 342 Days
• Field of Search: 715/703, 715/773, 715810-827, 715/843, 715/234, 345/156, 370/3, 377/3, 3810-827, 384/3, 323/4
• US Class Current: 715/773
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/018 Input/output arrangements for oriental characters
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A non-English text generation system and method is presented by which text can be generated in any language without a keyboard. Initially, only a few base characters or radicals of a language are displayed. A desired character or derivative symbol is reached by lookup through successive menus. When a desired character or symbol is reached, it can be displayed on a computer monitor using a computer mouse or a similar interactive device. This system and method can be applied to any non-English language such as Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, That, Lao, etc. The system and method has significant utility in internet searching, authentication, email, chat, wireless messaging, document preparation, online advertisement creation, form filling in e-commerce etc, in non-English languages.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

displaying on a computer monitor a first plurality of character menu items;

wherein each character menu item of the first plurality of character menu items has only one individually selectable a character of a language;

wherein each character menu item of the first plurality of character menu items is displayed in a first location on the computer monitor;

wherein each character of each character menu item of the first plurality of character menu items is a consonant character of the language;

further comprising receiving a first user selection of a first character menu item of the first plurality of character menu items, wherein the first user selection is received via a computer interactive device;

displaying on the computer monitor during a first state a first overall plurality of character menu items which consists of the first plurality of character menu items, a second plurality of character menu items, and any first further character menu items, so that no character menu items are displayed on the computer monitor during the first state other than the first overall plurality of character menu items, and wherein the second plurality of character menu items is displayed on the computer monitor during the first state in response to the first user selection of the first character menu item;

wherein each character menu item of the second plurality of character menu items has only one individually selectable a character of the language;

wherein each character menu item of the second plurality of character menu items is displayed in a second location on the computer monitor;

wherein each character of each of the second plurality of character menu items is a vowel derivative of the character of the first character menu item;

wherein the second plurality of character menu items is displayed substantially and directly connected to the first character menu item, and the second plurality of character menu items is not displayed substantially and directly connected to any character menu item of the first overall plurality of character menu items, disregarding the second plurality of character menu items themselves, other than the first character menu item, and

wherein the second location is separate and apart from the first location and the second location is adjacent the first character menu item;

further comprising receiving a second user selection of a second character menu item of the first plurality of character menu items, wherein the second user selection is received via the computer interactive device;

displaying on the computer monitor during a second state, a second overall plurality of character menu items which consists of the first plurality of character menu items, a third plurality of character menu items, and any second further character menu items, so that no character menu items are displayed on the computer monitor during the second state other than the second overall plurality of character menu items, and wherein the third plurality of character menu items is displayed on the computer monitor during the second state in response to the second user selection of the second character menu item; and

wherein each character menu item of the third plurality of character menu items has only one individually selectable a character of the language;

wherein each character of each character menu item of the third plurality of character menu items is a vowel derivative of the character of the second character menu item;

wherein the third plurality of character menu items is displayed substantially and directly connected to the second character menu item, and the third plurality of character menu items is not displayed substantially and directly connected to any character menu item of the second overall plurality of character menu items, disregarding the third plurality of character menu items themselves, other than the second character menu item; and

wherein each character menu item of the third plurality of character menu items is displayed in a third location on the computer monitor; and

wherein the first, second, and the third locations are separate and apart from each other and the third location is adjacent the second character menu item.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein

the second plurality of character menu items is displayed on the computer monitor in a substantially straight line along with the first character menu item in response to the first user selection;

and

the third plurality of character menu items is displayed on the computer monitor in a substantially straight line along with the second character menu item in response to the second user selection.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein

the first plurality of character menu items is displayed on the computer monitor in a row;

the second plurality of character menu items is displayed on the computer monitor in a column; and

the third plurality of character menu items is displayed on the computer monitor in a column.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein

the language is a non-English language.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising

receiving a third user selection of a particular character menu item of the first plurality, second plurality, and third plurality of character menu items and causing a character of the particular character menu item to be displayed in a fourth location on the computer monitor;

wherein the fourth location is separate and apart from the first, second, and third locations.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein

each of the character menu items of the first, second, and third plurality of character menu items is any one of an hypertext markup language (html) table cell, a button, and a graphic user interface component;

and

the first user selection is received via any one of a computer mouse, finger pad of a computer laptop, computer touch screen, a button, and a computer stylus on a computer mobile device.

7. A method comprising

displaying on a computer monitor a first plurality of character menu items;

wherein each character menu item of the first plurality of character menu items has only one individually selectable character of a language;

wherein each character menu item of the first plurality of character menu items is displayed in a first location on the computer monitor;

further comprising receiving a first user selection of a first character menu item of the first plurality of character menu items, wherein the first user selection is received via a computer interactive device;

displaying on the computer monitor during a first state a first overall plurality of character menu items which consists of the first plurality of character menu items, a second plurality of character menu items, and any first further character menu items, so that no character menu items are displayed on the computer monitor during the first state other than the first overall plurality of character menu items, and wherein the second plurality of character menu items is displayed on the computer monitor during the first state in response to the first user selection of the first character menu item;

wherein each character menu item of the second plurality of character menu items has only one individually selectable character of the language;

wherein the second plurality of character menu items is displayed substantially and directly connected to the first character menu item, and the second plurality of character menu items is not displayed substantially and directly connected to any character menu item of the first overall plurality of character menu items, disregarding the second plurality of character menu items themselves, other than the first character menu item;

wherein each character menu item of the second plurality of character menu items is displayed in a second location on the computer monitor; and

wherein the second location is separate and apart from the first location and the second location is adjacent the first character menu item;

further comprising receiving a second user selection of a second character menu item of the second plurality of character menu items, wherein the second user selection is received via the computer interactive device;

displaying on the computer monitor during a second state, a second overall plurality of character menu items which consists of the first plurality of character menu items, the second plurality of character menu items, a third plurality of character menu items, and any second further character menu items, so that no character menu items are displayed on the computer monitor during the second state other than the second overall plurality of character menu items and wherein the third plurality of character menu items is displayed on the computer monitor during the second state in response to the second user selection of the second character menu item;

wherein each character menu item of the third plurality of character menu items has only one individually selectable character of the language;

wherein the third plurality of character menu items is displayed substantially and directly connected to the second character menu item, and the third plurality of character menu items is not displayed substantially and directly connected to any character menu item of the second overall plurality of character menu items, disregarding the third plurality of character menu items themselves, other than the second character menu item;

wherein each character menu item of the third plurality of character menu items is displayed in a third location on the computer monitor; and

wherein the first, second, and the third locations are separate and apart from each other and the third location is adjacent the second character menu item.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein

each of the character menu items of the first plurality of character menu items has any one of a consonant character, a vowel, a base radical, a symbol, a lower case letter, an alphabet name, a digit, a block number, and a punctuation character of the language.

9. The method of claim 7 wherein

the first plurality of character menu items is displayed on the computer monitor in a row;

the second plurality of character menu items is displayed on the computer monitor in a column; and

the third plurality of character menu items is displayed on the computer monitor in a row.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein

the first plurality of character menu items is displayed on the computer monitor in a substantially straight line which includes the first character menu item but not the second character menu item;

the second plurality of character menu items is displayed on the computer monitor in response to the first user selection in a substantially straight line which includes the first character menu item and the second character menu item; and

the third plurality of character menu items is displayed on the computer monitor in response to the second user selection in a substantially straight line which includes the second character menu item but not the first character menu item.

11. The method of claim 7 wherein

the language is a non-English language.

12. The method of claim 7 further comprising

receiving a third user selection of a particular character menu item of the first plurality, second plurality, and third plurality of character menu items and causing a character of the particular character menu item to be displayed in a fourth location on the computer monitor;

wherein the fourth location is separate and apart from the first, second, and third locations.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising

searching on the internet using the character of the particular character menu item.

14. The method of claim 7 further comprising

receiving a third user selection of a third character menu item of the third plurality of character menu items, wherein the third user selection is received via a computer interactive device;

and

in response to the third user selection, displaying on the computer monitor a fourth plurality of character menu items, wherein the character menu items of the fourth plurality of character menu items are related to the third character menu item;

wherein each character menu item of the fourth plurality of character menu items has a character of the language;

wherein each character menu item of the fourth plurality of character menu items is displayed in a fourth location on the computer monitor; and

wherein the first, second, third, and fourth locations are separate and apart from each other and the fourth location is adjacent the third character menu item.

15. The method of claim 14 further comprising

receiving a fourth user selection of a particular character menu item of the first plurality, second plurality, third plurality, and fourth plurality of character menu items and causing a character of the particular character menu item to be displayed in a fifth location on the computer monitor;

wherein the fifth location is separate and apart from the first, second, third, and fourth locations.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein

the first plurality of character menu items is displayed in a row in the first location of the computer monitor;

the second plurality of character menu items is displayed in any one of a column, a row, and a block in the second location of the computer monitor;

the third plurality of character menu items is displayed in any one of a column, a row, and a block in the third location of the computer monitor; and

the fourth plurality of character menu items is displayed in any one of a column, a row, and a block in the third fourth location of the computer monitor.

17. The method of claim 7 wherein

the first user selection is received from any one of a computer mouse, a computer touch screen, a finger pad of a laptop computer, and a computer keyboard.

18. The method of claim 7 wherein

each character of each character menu item of the first plurality of character menu items is a consonant character of the language;

wherein each character of each of the second plurality of character menu items is a vowel derivative of the character of the first character menu item; and

wherein each character of each of the third plurality of character menu items is a double-consonant conjunct derivative of the character of the second character menu item.

19. The method of claim 7 wherein

the first plurality of character menu items is displayed in a row in the first location of the computer monitor;

the second plurality of character menu items is displayed in any one of a column, a row, and a block in the second location of the computer monitor; and

the third plurality of character menu items is displayed in any one of a column, a row, and a block in the third location of the computer monitor.