Data conversion system

Claim 1

IN A SYSTEM FOR TRANSLATING SEQUENTIALLY RECEIVED CHARACTERS GROUPED ACCORDING TO WORD PATTERNS WHEREIN EACH WORD PATTERN IS IDENTIFIED BY A DISCRETE CHARACTER RECEIVED IMMEDIATELY SUBSEQUENT THERETO AND IS PRECEDED BY A TIMING WORD REPRESENTING THE TIME AT WHICH SAID WORD PATTERN IS TO BE TRANSLATED, MEANS FOR STORING EACH WORD PATTERN AS RECEIVED, INDIVIDUAL TRANSLATING MEANS FOR EACH WORD PATTERN, MEANS NORMALLY RESPONSIVE TO DETECTION OF SAID DISCRETE CHARACTERS TO PRODUCE OUTPUTS INDIVIDUALLY REPRESTATIVE THEREOF, CONNECTING MEANS CONTROLLED BY SAID REPRESENTATIVE OUTPUTS TO CONNECT MEANS CONTROLLED BY TO THE TRANSLATING MEANS ASSOCIATED WITH THE WORD PATTERN STORED THEREIN, TIMING MEANS PRODUCING TIME-REPRESENTATIVE SIGNALS,L MEANS FOR COMPARING THE TIMING WORD PATTERN WITH SAID SIGNALS, AND MEANS CONTROLLED BY SAID COMPARISON MEANS UPON NON-CORRESPONDENCE OF THE QUANTITIES COMPARED TO DISABLE SAID CONNECTING MEANS AND INITIATE COMPARISON BETWEEN SAID SIGNALS AND THE NEXT TIMING WORD PATTERN RECEIVED.