Patent ID: 8082276

Claim:
A method for utilizing captured information, executed via a processing unit on a computing device comprising a memory whereon computer-executable instructions comprising the method are stored, comprising: in response to connecting a first device to a second device, the first device is a capture device comprising captured information, the captured information comprising one or more of audio information and image information, converting at least a portion of the captured information to text-based information; the second device recognizing a text pattern of the text-based information and selecting a desired action to be performed by the second device using an inference engine to compare at least some of the text pattern against a list of enabled actions based at least in part on at least one rule specification defining a data pattern, the data pattern applicable to at least a first instance of text and a second instance of text, the first instance of text different than and not a repeat of the second instance of text; and automatically performing the selected desired action using at least some of the captured information, performing the selected desired action comprising: determining if at least one of the first instance of text and the second instant of text comprises characters corresponding to a name and numbers corresponding to a phone number; if a determination is made that at least one of the first instance of text and the second instant of text comprises characters corresponding to a name and numbers corresponding to a phone number, determining if the name corresponds to an existing name in an address book; and if a determination is made that the name corresponds to the existing name in the address book, adding the phone number to an address book entry associated with the existing name.