Patent Document ID: 7778821
Application ID: 10997255

Base Claim:
1. A method for manipulating characters displayed on a display, the method comprising: identifying, with a computing system, a selected word that includes at least one character to be modified; receiving a spelling command to modify said selected word; correlating, with the computing system, unique numerical values with corresponding characters of said selected word, wherein each character of said selected word corresponds to a unique numerical value; displaying a list of at least one allowable character modification, on the display associated with the computing system, wherein said list includes a unique numerical value corresponding to each of said at least one allowable character modification; receiving, with the computing system, a selection command and a modification command for said at least one character to be modified, wherein said selection command comprises said unique numerical value corresponding to said selected character to be modified in said selected word; and modifying said selected character responsive to said modification command to generate a modified word.

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Claim 23:
23. The method of claim 1 , wherein the method is implemented through use of an integrated application module integrated with a target software application, and wherein the target software application includes at least one of a word processing application, a spreadsheet application, or an email application.