US Patent No: 5,995,922

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Identifying information related to an input word in an electronic dictionary

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Abstract

A method and system for retrieving information from an electronic dictionary. The system stores all information about words that have the same normalized form into a single entry within the electronic dictionary. The normalized form of a word has all lower case letters and no diacritical marks. When information is to be retrieved from the dictionary for a word, the word is first normalized and then the dictionary is searched for the entry corresponding to that normalized word. The entry that is found contains the information for that word.

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Patent OwnerAddressTotal Patents
MICROSOFT CORPORATIONREDMOND, WA24226

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Penteroudakis, Joseph E Seattle, WA 2 73
Richardson, Steve Redmond, WA 5 131

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