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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2000
Filed:
Nov. 14, 1996
Ronald A Fein, Seattle, WA (US);
Anthony D Krueger, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In an electronic word processing system environment, a system and method for verifying the accuracy of the grammatical composition of a sentence in the background. While the word processor is in edit mode, i.e., the user is entering data or commands, it is determined when there is an idle period. An idle period is when the user is not entering data or commands. During an idle period, a sentence is extracted from the electronic document. It is determined whether the sentence is of proper grammatical composition. If the sentence does not have proper grammatical composition, then an error indication is displayed to the user in the context of the electronic document. These tasks may be repeated for each sentence in the document until the entire document has been proofed or the idle period ends. When the user selects the error indication in the document, a pop-up menu is displayed beneath the sentence containing the error. The pop-up menu includes the top three suggestions for correcting the error, a command to ignore the error, and a tunnel to the foreground grammar checker dialog. The pop-up menu may also include a full sentence rewrite that replaces all of the errors in the sentence with the suggestion that will most likely correct each error.