Patent ID: 7096425

Claim:
An information entry apparatus comprising: an alphanumeric entry unit for entering alphanumeric string information, a display unit for displaying keywords comprised of predetermined alphanumeric strings in a plurality of corresponding fields on a display screen, a word dictionary for storing a plurality of keywords, each keyword being identified in said word dictionary as corresponding to only one of the plurality of fields corresponding to keywords and to a plurality of similar words for deducing the keyword, an alphanumeric information processing unit for cutting out predetermined word strings from the entered alphanumeric string, searching through the word dictionary by the cut out words, extracting a corresponding group of keywords from the dictionary for which matches are obtained by comparison of the cut out words with ones of the group of keywords of the dictionary and the pluralities of similar words, and displaying each extracted keyword in its corresponding field on the display unit, and a conjugated alphanumeric string information dictionary for storing conjugated alphanumeric string information comprised of a plurality of sets of alphanumeric string information elements, wherein the alphanumeric information processing unit searches through the conjugated alphanumeric string information dictionary by predetermined words cut out from the entered alphanumeric string and extracts the overall conjugated alphanumeric string information for which matches are obtained by comparison of the predetermined words cut out from the entered alphanumeric string with part or all of the conjugated alphanumeric string information in the dictionary and displays the same in the corresponding fields of the display unit.