Patent ID: 7032174
Filing Date: 2006-04-18
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for recognizing the correct spelling of a word associated with an email application, the method comprising: receiving an indication that an email name has been entered into a first field; resolving the email name to a display name, automatically adding the display name to a custom dictionary and at least one module consisting essentially of a spell checker module, auto-completion module, and a smart-tags module if the display name is identified as a new word; receiving an indication that text associated with the display name has been entered into a body of an application; comparing the text associated with the display name to a word list; indicating that the text associated with the display name is correctly spelled in response to finding a match between the text associated with the display name and the word list; and indicating that the text associated with the display name is incorrectly spelled in response to failing to find a match between the text associated with the display name and the word list.