Patent Document ID: 8111922
Application ID: 11811367

Base Claim:
1. A tangible computer-readable storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions that when executed via a microprocessor perform a method, comprising: providing a combined handwriting recognizer that supports both left-to-right and right-to-left language recognition and is configured to make an identification of text received by the combined handwriting recognizer using a combined dictionary, with the combined dictionary comprising a first dictionary from a language written in a left-to-right direction and a second dictionary from a language written in a right-to-left direction, the direction of entries in at least one of the first dictionary and the second dictionary reversed such that terms appear backwards.

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Claim 4:
4. The tangible computer-readable storage medium of claim 1 , comprising: converting mixed left-to-right and right-to-left text in a visual order to a logical order using an inverse bi-directional process; and sending the mixed text from a handwriting input area to another application in the logical order.