International Business Machines Corporation

Gerald John Balm

Viktors Berstis

Leon Edward Gregg

Terry Lyle Schardt

James Gregory Ranweiler

William C Richardson

Charles T Watson

Gary F Aberle

Kuang-Chi Hu

A serialization apparatus for a data processing system wherein access restrictions are automatically enforced: (1) in behalf of individual machine instructions in order to maintain object integrity; and (2) at each user's discretion in order to maintain synchronization among all concurrent users of any given object. Various types of restrictions can be enforced in behalf of both machine instructions and users, allowing concurrent access to objects at various levels where appropriate.

Object access serialization apparatus for a data processing system

A character-recognition unit or other input device provides a sequence of input characters. A questionable identification of one of the input characters is resolved by considering surrounding characters by a modified N-gram technique. The context characters are each translated into one of a small number of reduced codes each representing a subset of the alphabet to be recognized. The reduced codes are combined to produce a context code which indicates a set of categories containing the correct identification for the questionable input character. A list of confusion codes specifies a number of possibly correct identifications for one of the input characters. One of the codes in the confusion list is selected by the context code as the correct identification for the questionable character.

Method and apparatus for context-aided recognition

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