Patent Document ID: 4374625
Application ID: 06145523

Base Claim:
1. An automatic word ending text recorder of the kind having: text display means to display a sequence of text characters in intelligible form in response to character and function identifying signals, keyboard means including a plurality of alphanumeric, symbol and function keys to produce a keycode signal unique to any operator-actuated key, and decoding means responsive to keycode signals from said keyboard means to produce said character and function identifying signals, wherein the improvement comprises: word ending means within said decoding means producing one of at least two groups of one or more character identifying signals in response to actuation of a selected key on said keyboard, each group of character identifying signals representing a different word ending and wherein said word ending means includes means for selecting among said groups depending upon identification of one or more key actuations prior to actuation of said selected key.

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Claim 11:
11. The apparatus of claim 1 wherein said word ending means includes: means to store a representation of each actuated key in an ordered sequence, addressing means responsive to actuation of said selected key to read at least a representation of a preceding key actuation from said means to store, and table means addressed by said representation read from said means to store in response to actuation of said selected key to produce a corresponding data unit, some of said data units comprising a representation of said selected word ending.