Patents by Inventor Sharon S. Hobbs

Sharon S. Hobbs has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • System for automatically hyphenating and verifying the spelling of words in a multi-lingual document
    Patent number: 4456969
    Abstract: Disclosed is an improved system for verifying the spelling and providing hyphenation points for text words from a plurality of interspersed languages. The control system includes control codes which are inserted in the text to define the language of the text following the control code. The system accepts the control codes and responds by comparing the text following the control code against a storage dictionary of correctly spelled words and hyphenation points for the language associated with the control code. The system provides as an output an indicator of whether the word is correctly spelled or where the proper hyphenation points for the word appears. The systemn further includes control codes which when detected will cause blocks of data which should not be compared to the storage dictionary to be skipped.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1981
    Date of Patent: June 26, 1984
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Aubrey M. Herzik, Sharon S. Hobbs, James T. Repass