Patent ID: 7613725
Filing Date: 2009-11-03
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method for assisting input of a date in a data processing system, wherein the data processing system performs the steps of: storing a pre-specified data in a storage device as a reference date; in response to a user's input of a first digit sequence of one or more digits in a date field displayed on a display device by business computer programs, storing the input first digit sequence in the storage device; calculating a number of digits n of the input first digit sequence, and comparing said number of digits n with the number of digits m in the date field; generating a first candidate date by complementing the input first digit sequence with a second digit sequence generated on the basis of the reference date when the calculated number of digits n of the first digit sequence is smaller than the number of digits m in the date field; incrementing a first value at the (m−n) acquiring a third digit sequence representing the reference date from the storage device; extracting a fourth digit sequence of a number of digits, equivalent to a second value obtained by subtracting the number of digits n of the input first digit sequence from the number of digit m in the date field, from the third digit sequence representing the reference date; generating a second candidate date by concatenating the extracted fourth digit sequence to the input first digit sequence; displaying the generated first and second candidate dates on the display device.