SHARABLE DISTRIBUTED DICTIONARY FOR APPLICATIONS

• US 20100250239A1
• Filed: 03/25/2009
• Published: 09/30/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 03/25/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Itakura, Ken
• Granted Patent: US 8,423,353 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/93 Document management systems
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/242 Dictionaries

Abstract

Architecture for providing and processing a dictionary in a universal format such as XML, for example. The dictionary can be authored while in the universal format, designated for use with multiple compatible applications, and compiled on-the-fly using a dictionary compiler. The dictionary can be shared and/or distributed via a web server, e-mail, and other suitable data transmission techniques. Once downloaded to the client application, the dictionary is registered with the requesting client application for use. With this model, the dictionary created by a user for a specific domain and for a specific application can be easily reused by other applications, and shared among the users belonging to the same domain.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented dictionary system, comprising:

a format component for formatting a dictionary in a universal format consumable by disparate applications; and

a compiler component for compiling the formatted dictionary for use in an application in response to the dictionary being accessed.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the dictionary is centrally located for access by the disparate applications.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the universal format is XML.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising an authoring tool for authoring the formatted dictionary to include at least one of text data, linguistic data, or dictation data.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the compiler component compiles the formatted dictionary for use by a linguistic analysis application.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the compiler component compiles the formatted dictionary for use by a spell checking application.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the compiler component compiles the formatted dictionary for use by a speech dictation system.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the formatted and compiled dictionary is downloaded and registered with an application for use with the application, which is an input method application.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the compiled formatted dictionary is shared via at least one of a website, an electronic message, or a file sharing application.

10. A computer-implemented dictionary system, comprising:

a format component for formatting a dictionary in a universal format consumable by disparate applications;

an authoring tool for authoring the formatted dictionary to include at least one of textual data, linguistic data, or dictation data; and

a compiler component for compiling the formatted dictionary in response to a request for the dictionary.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the format component, authoring tool, and compiler component are centrally located for access by the disparate applications.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the compiler component compiles the formatted dictionary for use by at least one of a linguistic analysis application, a spell checking application, or a speech dictation system.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the formatted and compiled dictionary is downloaded and registered with a client application for use with the client application.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the compiled formatted dictionary is distributed and shared via at least one of a website, an electronic message, or a file sharing application.

15. A computer-implemented dictionary method, comprising:

formatting a dictionary in a universal format consumable by disparate client applications;

compiling the formatted dictionary for use by an application in response to a request for the dictionary; and

downloading the compiled dictionary for use by the application.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising registering the downloaded dictionary for use by the application.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising adding an attribute to the dictionary related to a different application to the dictionary for use of the dictionary by the different application.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising authoring the formatted dictionary to include at least one of text data, linguistic data, hand writing data, or dictation data.

19. The method of claim 15, further comprising updating the dictionary centrally for distributed use in an XML format by compatible applications.

20. The method of claim 15, further comprising downloading the compiled dictionary for use by at least one of a linguistic analysis application, a spell checking application, or a speech dictation application.