Patent ID: 7555316

Claim:
A central unit for formatting and preparing numbers for display comprising: a microphone port adapted to receive spoken voice information from a microphone; a display port adapted to interact with a display device; wherein the central unit receives spoken voice information from the microphone port and determines if the spoken voice information includes numbers; if numbers are received, determines if the numbers include a telephone number or a non-telephone number; if a telephone number is received, prepares the telephone number for display using a predetermined telephone number format including at least one separation character; wherein if the numbers include a non-telephone number, prepares the non-telephone number for display using a predetermined non-telephone number format including at least one separation character, the predetermined non-telephone number format is different from the predetermined telephone number format; and the spoken voice information includes groups of numbers and at least one word command if the spoken voice information is a telephone number, wherein the at least one word command assists in preparing the telephone number for display by indicating the location of the at least one separation character, and wherein the spoken voice information includes groups of numbers and pauses separating the groups of numbers, and wherein the central unit converts the spoken voice information into a string of machine readable characters, and wherein the central unit places a separation character in a location corresponding to a pause.