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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2016
Applicant:
Skype, Dublin, IE;
Inventor:
Peter A. Kalmstrom, Norrkoping, SE;
Assignee:
SKYPE, Dublin, IE;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/24 (2006.01); G06F 17/27 (2006.01); H04M 1/57 (2006.01); H04M 3/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 7/003 (2013.01); G06F 17/241 (2013.01); G06F 17/271 (2013.01); G06F 17/275 (2013.01); H04M 1/57 (2013.01); H04M 3/42306 (2013.01); H04M 3/42348 (2013.01);
Abstract
Method and system for recognising a numeric or alphanumeric sequence of characters in a document, the sequence conforming to predetermined rules and representing user identifiers for identifying users in a communication system include identifying a country of origin of the document, recalling rules relating to the format of the sequence associated with the determined country of origin, searching the document to identify any sequence in the document satisfying the format and returning any such sequence.