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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 24, 2001
Filed:
May. 22, 1998
Randy G. Goldberg, Princeton, NJ (US);
Amir M. Mane, Lincroft, NJ (US);
AT&T Corp, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for reminding users who enter information in longhand fashion that such information may also be accessed by entering a shorthand counterpart to the entered information. According to the present invention, a user enters an input identifier into a device such as a telephone. The present invention maintains in memory a set of valid longhand identifiers associated with their respective shorthand counterparts. Based on a comparison between the input identifier and the information maintained in memory, the present invention determines whether the input identifier is a longhand information item. If it is, the present invention accesses from memory the associated shorthand information item for the entered longhand information item. The present invention then presents the accessed shorthand information item to the user, so that in the future, the user will activate the longhand information item by entering the associated shorthand information item.