Apparatus, method and computer readable medium for a multifunctional interactive dictionary database for referencing polysemous symbol

• US 9,229,925 B2
• Filed: 07/26/2013
• Issued: 01/05/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Prentke Romich Company
• Original Assignee: Semantic Compaction Systems Incorporated
• Inventors: Baker, Bruce R., Conti, Robert V., Cross, Russell T., Kovacs, Thomas R., Halloran, Cindy C., Halloran, John D., Hershberger, David H., Read, Rob, Hill, Katya J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Godbold, Douglas
• Application Number:
  US14/416,023
• Publication Number:
  US 20150242390A1
• Time in Patent Office: 893 Days
• Field of Search: 704/10
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24 Querying
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/332 Query formulation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/242 Dictionaries
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/253 Grammatical analysis; Style critique
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2340/12 Overlay of images, i.e. displayed pixel being the result of switching between the corresponding input pixels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/14 Display of multiple viewports
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/377 for mixing or overlaying two or more graphic patterns G09G5/02, G09G5/397 take precedence

Abstract

An embodiment of the present application is directed to an apparatus, method, and or computer readable medium for effectively storing an interactive dictionary database in a memory. The interactive dictionary database includes a plurality of symbol sequences, each of the plurality of symbol sequences including at least one polysemous symbol and each of the plurality of symbol sequences being stored in association with at least one word, sentence, phoneme, message, letter, number, morpheme, command and/or phrase. The method includes providing, in the interactive dictionary database, information useable to assign at least a subset of the plurality of symbol sequences at least one of an active and an inactive status.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

providing a keyboard, the keyboard including a plurality of selectable polysemous symbols;

storing an interactive dictionary database in a memory, the interactive dictionary database including a plurality of symbol sequences, each of the plurality of symbol sequences including at least one of the selectable polysemous symbols and each of the plurality of symbol sequences being stored in association with a rationale and at least one word, sentence, phoneme, message, letter, number, morpheme, command and/or phrase, each of the respective the rationales relating each of the respective symbol sequences to the associated at least one word, sentence, phoneme, message, letter, number, morpheme, command and/or phrase; and

displaying, upon a processor receiving an input from a user, at least portions of the interactive dictionary database to the user, the at least portions including at least one associated symbol sequence, rationale and at least one word, sentence, phoneme, message, letter, number, morpheme, command and/or phrase, at least a subset of the plurality of polysemous symbol sequences being assignable by a user at least one of an active and an inactive status, wherein when an inactive status is assigned to one of the plurality of polysemous symbol sequences, a corresponding sequence of previously selectable symbols of the keyboard is rendered unselectable by the user.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the interactive dictionary database is searchable.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the displaying includes displaying selectable information useable to assign at least a subset of the plurality of polysemous symbol sequences at least one of an active and an inactive status.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the electronic overlay is a virtual keyboard.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein an integrated input and display device includes the virtual keyboard and performs the displaying.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the interactive dictionary database includes a plurality of rationales, each respectively relating each of the plurality of symbol sequences to their associated at least one of words, sentences, phonemes, messages, letters, numbers, morphemes, commands and phrases.

7. A non-transitory computer readable medium including program segments for, when executed on a computer system, causing the computer system to implement the method of claim 1.

8. An apparatus, comprising:

a memory configured to store an interactive dictionary database, the interactive dictionary database including a plurality of symbol sequences, each of the plurality of symbol sequences including at least one selectable polysemous symbol of an electronic overlay and each of the plurality of symbol sequences being stored in association with at least one word, sentence, phoneme, message, letter, number, morpheme, command and/or phrase; and

an integrated input and display device, including the electronic overlay including a plurality of selectable polysemous symbols, configured to display at least portions of the interactive dictionary database to a user upon receipt of user input, including information useable to assign at least a subset of the plurality of symbol sequences at least one of an active and an inactive status, wherein the information useable to assign at least a subset of the plurality of symbol sequences at least one of an active and an inactive status is stored in the memory, in association with at least a plurality of the symbol sequences, and wherein the integrated input and display device is configured to display the information to the user in a selectable manner, wherein when an inactive status is assigned to one of the plurality of polysemous symbol sequences, a corresponding sequence of previously selectable symbols of the electronic overlay is rendered unselectable by the user.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising a processor configured to receive input information relating to the at least one of an active and an inactive status of a symbol sequence and edit the interactive dictionary database stored in memory.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the interactive dictionary database includes a plurality of rationales, each respectively relating each of the plurality of symbol sequences to their associated at least one of words, sentences, phonemes, messages, letters, numbers, morphemes, commands and phrases.