Text string checking
OwnerDaniel Fallmaninventor
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and to a system for checking a text string (1), wherein the text string is checked against a database (2), which includes both words (21) and phrases (22). It is proposed in particular that the database is comprised of the global network Internet (A) with its associated home pages (A1, A2, A3, An) and text masses. Checked text strings are delivered as an argument (3) to at least one search engine (4) which then searches for the text string on the Internet (A). The search result (41) from the search engine (4) is received by an evaluating unit (5), which presents an evaluation (51) of the text string (1) based on the search result (41).
Claims25
A text string checking method in which the text string is checked against a database that includes both words and phrases, characterised in that said database is comprised of the global network Internet and associated home pages and text masses;
- in that said text string is delivered as an argument to at least one search engine that searches for said text string on the Internet;
- in that the search result from the search engine is received by an evaluating unit;
- and in that said evaluating unit presents an evaluation of said text string based on said search result.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterised in that said text string includes one word or a phrase that contains several words.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterised in that the text string is marked in some way in a selected application;
- in that the checking procedure is then activated by a specific command;
- and in that, when several text strings are checked in parallel, one or more text strings can be entered manually.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterised in that said checking procedure is available as a tool incorporated in an application, such as a word processor, a spread sheet or calculating program, a drawing program, or some other application in which text is processed in some way.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterised in that said evaluation is comprised of the number of occurrences of respective text strings.
A method according to any one of the preceding claims, characterised in that said search result and said evaluation are stored as a reference in a local database.
A text string checking system in which said text string can be checked against a database that includes both words and phrases, characterised in that the system includes a client and a server;
- in that the client is adapted to act locally and there fetch said text string;
- in that the client is adapted to send the text string as an argument to said server, which is adapted to operate centrally;
- in that the server is adapted to send said argument to at least one search engine that is adapted to operate in the global network Internet with its associated home pages and text masses;
- in that the search engine is adapted to search for the text string on the Internet;
- in that said server is adapted to receive a search result from the search engine;
- in that the client is adapted to receive said search result from said server;
- and in that the client includes an evaluating unit which is adapted to present locally an evaluation of said text string based on said search result.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.