Patent Document ID: 4674065
Application ID: 06807769

Base Claim:
1. The method of detecting homophone contextual errors in a string of data segments in an information processing system comprising: (a) storing a table of homophones, each homophone having stored therewith a set of contextual usage rules specific thereto and at least one of said homophones having stored therewith one or more pointers to a table of other sets of contextual usage rules; (b) scanning asid string for one of said homophones stored in said table of homophones; (c) detecting a homophone in said string; (d) accessing said contextual usage rules and any of said one or more pointers stored with said detected homophone, using said one or more pointers accessing any contextual usage rules in said table of other sets of contextual usage rules associated with said homophone; (e) comparing data segments surrounding said homophone with said accessed contextual usage rules associated with said homophone; and (f) indicating to an operator of said information processing system that a homophone has been found whose contextual usage rules do not compare with said data segments surrounding said homophone.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of detecting homophone contextual errors of claim 1 further comprising: (g) displaying at least one alternative homophone related to said homophone indicated to said operator.