Patent Document ID: 8108772
Application ID: 11868197

Base Claim:
1. A method of romanizing Chinese ideograms against an implemented dialect, comprising: receiving a user input selection of an implemented dialect from among a plurality of stored dialects; displaying a matrix of phonetic combinations that excludes phonetic combinations for syllables not present in the implemented dialect; receiving a user input of a phonetic combination selected from the display of the displayed phonetic combinations; displaying a first Chinese ideogram, the first Chinese ideogram being associated with the selected phonetic combination in the implemented dialect; defining a first roman alphabet equivalent of the selected phonetic combination wherein the first roman alphabet equivalent corresponds to a user's preferred pronunciation of the first Chinese ideogram and does not match the displayed phonetic combination; and associating the first roman alphabet equivalent with the first Chinese ideogram.

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Claim 5:
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising storing the first roman alphabet equivalent in a personal spelling dictionary.