Systems and methods for automatic spell checking of dynamically generated web pages

• US 8,082,498 B2
• Filed: 05/27/2008
• Issued: 12/20/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: AppFolio Incorporated
• Original Assignee: AppFolio Incorporated
• Inventors: Walker, Jonathan, Salamon, David
• Primary Examiner(s): Tran, Quoc A
• Application Number:
  US12/127,566
• Publication Number:
  US 20090300488A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,302 Days
• Field of Search: 715/257, 715234-237
• US Class Current: 715/257
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/232 Orthographic correction, e.g. spell checking or vowelisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/12 Hotels or restaurants
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/16 Real estate

Abstract

Systems and methods for automatically spell-checking dynamically generated web pages include: generating, by a server responsive to a request from a client, a dynamically generated web page containing at least some text; transmitting, by the server to the client, the dynamic web page; intercepting, by a process, the dynamic web page; identifying, by the process, the at least some text; executing, by the process, a spelling check on the at least some text; and outputting, by the process, at least one word identified by the spelling check as potentially misspelled.

Claims

1. A method for automatically spell-checking dynamically generated web pages, the method comprising:

a. receiving, by a server computing device, a request from a client computing device for a web page associated with a workflow;

b. generating dynamically, by the server computing device responsive to the received request, a web page containing at least some text;

c. intercepting after dynamic generation of the web page by the server computing device and before transmission to the client computing device, by a process executing on the server computing device, the dynamically-generated web page;

d. identifying, by the process executing on the server computing device, the at least some text contained in the web page;

e. executing, by the process executing on the server computing device, a spelling check on the identified at least some text; and

f. outputting, by the process executing on the server computing device, at least one word identified by the spelling check as misspelled.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving, by the process executing on the server computing device, user input indicating that the at least one word was spelled properly.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising transmitting, by the process executing on the server computing device, instructions to update a dictionary, of words used to identify misspelled worlds with the at least one word.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the server computing device receives periodic requests for the dynamically generated web page.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising storing to a log file, by the process executing on the server computing device, at least one word identified by the spelling check as misspelled.

6. The method of claim 5 further comprising transmitting the stored log file to an administrator of the server computing device.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising validating the use of HTML by the generated web page.

8. The method of claim 1 further comprising executing, by the process executing on the server computing device a grammar check on the at least some text.

9. A computer-implemented system for automatically spell-checking dynamically generated web pages generated in response to a request from a client computing device for a web page associated with a workflow,

the server computing device comprising:

means for receiving a request from a client computing device for a web page associated with a workflow;

means for dynamically generating, responsive to the received request, a web page containing at least some text;

means for intercepting the web page after dynamic generation and before transmission to a client computing device;

means for identifying the at least some text in the intercepted web page;

means for executing a spelling check on the at least some text; and

means for outputting at least one word identified by the spelling check as misspelled.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the server computing device further comprises means for receiving user input indicating that the at least one word was misspelled.

11. The system of claim 9 wherein the means for intercepting the web page comprises a listener in a network stack of the server computing device.

12. The system of claim 9 further comprising a dictionary of words used by the means for executing a spelling check.

13. The system of claim 9 further comprising a web browser sending the web page prior to verification of spelling.