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Communication apparatus and method establishing a language dependent sort order search
Assignee: Canon Inc
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Filing: 1991-10-10
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Granted: 1994-09-27
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Expires: 2011-10-10
Abstract
Abstract A communication apparatus comprises a memory for storing telephone numbers of a plurality of communication destinations together with destination data including character information such as abbreviations; a search unit for searching the destination data stored in the memory; a selection unit for selecting a language; and a set unit for setting an order of search for the destination data by the search unit in accordance with the language selected by the selection unit.
Inventors
- 👤 Masaya Kondo
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-10-28 06:55
CPC Classifications
H; H04; H04N; H04N1/00; H04N1/32; H04N1/32037; H04M; H04M1/00; H04M1/26; H04M1/27; H04M1/274; H04M1/2745; H04M1/27467; H04M1/2748
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 13
Claim 1
Independent Claim
105 words
A search apparatus comprising: first memory means for storing telephone numbers of a plurality of communication destinations together with destination data including character information such as a destination name; second memory means for storing a plurality of separate orders of search characters, each separate order corresponding to a different one of a plurality of languages; selection means for selecting one of the plurality of languages; and search means for searching the destination data stored in said first memory in accordance with the order of search characters stored in said second memory means regarding the one of the plurality of languages selected by said selection means.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
105 words
A search apparatus comprising: first memory means for storing telephone numbers of a plurality of communication destinations together with destination data including character information such as a destination name; second memory means for storing a plurality of separate orders of search characters, each separate order corresponding to a different one of a plurality of languages; selection means for selecting one of the plurality of languages; and search means for searching the destination data stored in said first memory in accordance with the order of search characters stored in said second memory means regarding the one of the plurality of languages selected by said selection means.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
29 words
A search apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said search means arranges the destination data stored in advance and destination data newly stored in accordance with the selected language.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
94 words
A search apparatus comprising: first memory means for storing data of a plurality of communication destinations including character information; second memory means for storing a plurality of separate orders of search characters, each separate order corresponding to a different one of a plurality of languages; selection means for selecting one of the plurality of languages; and search means for searching the plurality of communication destinations stored in said first memory means in accordance with the order of search characters stored in said second memory means regarding the selected one of the plurality of languages.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
94 words
A search apparatus comprising: first memory means for storing data of a plurality of communication destinations including character information; second memory means for storing a plurality of separate orders of search characters, each separate order corresponding to a different one of a plurality of languages; selection means for selecting one of the plurality of languages; and search means for searching the plurality of communication destinations stored in said first memory means in accordance with the order of search characters stored in said second memory means regarding the selected one of the plurality of languages.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
24 words
A search apparatus according to claim 3 wherein said search means arranges the communication destinations stored in advance and the communication destinations newly stored.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
84 words
A search apparatus having an electronic book function with registered character information data, comprising: memory means for storing a plurality of separate orders of search characters, each separate order corresponding to a different one of a plurality of languages; selection means for selecting one of the plurality of languages; and search means for searching the registered character information in accordance with the order of search characters stored in the memory means regarding the one of the plurality of languages selected by said selection means.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
84 words
A search apparatus having an electronic book function with registered character information data, comprising: memory means for storing a plurality of separate orders of search characters, each separate order corresponding to a different one of a plurality of languages; selection means for selecting one of the plurality of languages; and search means for searching the registered character information in accordance with the order of search characters stored in the memory means regarding the one of the plurality of languages selected by said selection means.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
23 words
A search apparatus according to claim 5 wherein said search means arranges the character information registered in advance and newly stored character information.
Claim 10
Independent Claim
69 words
A method of searching a plurality of registered data including character information, comprising the steps of: storing a plurality of separate orders of search characters, each separate order corresponding to a different one of a plurality of languages; selecting one of the plurality of languages; and searching the plurality of registered data in accordance with the order of search characters regarding the selected one of the plurality of languages.
Claim 11
Independent Claim
69 words
A method of searching a plurality of registered data including character information, comprising the steps of: storing a plurality of separate orders of search characters, each separate order corresponding to a different one of a plurality of languages; selecting one of the plurality of languages; and searching the plurality of registered data in accordance with the order of search characters regarding the selected one of the plurality of languages.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
24 words
A method according to claim 7, wherein in said searching step the plurality of data registered in advance and newly added data are arranged.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
16 words
A method according to claim 7, wherein the plurality of registered data includes communication destination data.
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