Patent Document ID: 7706611
Application ID: 11210260

Base Claim:
1. A method in a computing system for identifying a sequence of glyphs, the method comprising: receiving an image of a sequence of glyphs; for each of a subset of glyphs of the sequence: determining whether the glyph matches a retained glyph; when the glyph matches a retained glyph, assigning to the glyph a character identity associated with the retained glyph; when the glyph does not match a retained glyph: retaining the glyph; selecting a character identity for the unmatched glyph; and assigning the selected character identity to the unmatched glyph; generating a representation of the image of the sequence of glyphs with the assigned character identities; and identifying the sequence of glyphs using the generated representation.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein identifying the sequence of glyphs using the generated representation includes identifying a single sequence of glyphs from multiple possible sequences of glyphs represented by the generated representation by comparing shape information associated with the generated representation to shape information associated with the identified multiple possible sequences of glyphs.