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(12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 9,116,890 B2 King Et Al USOO911 6890B2 (12) United States Patent (10) Patent No.: US 9,116,890 B2 King et al. (45) Date of Patent: *Aug. 25, 2015 (54) TRIGGERING ACTIONS IN RESPONSE TO (52) U.S. Cl. OPTICALLY ORACOUSTICALLY CPC .......... G06F 17/30011 (2013.01); G06K 9/344 CAPTURING KEYWORDS FROMA (2013.01) RENDERED DOCUMENT (58) Field of Classification Search CPC .......... G06F 17/30011; G06F 17/3002; G06F (71) Applicant: Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US) 17/30026; G06F 17/30029; G06F 17/30047; H04L 49/00; H04L 49/3009; H04L 49/356; (72) Inventors: Martin T. King, Vashon Island, WA H04L 49/357; H04L 49/50: H04L 49/55; (US); Dale L. Grover, Ann Arbor, MI H04L 49/70; H04L 63/0227 (US); Clifford A. Kushler, Lynnwood, See application file for complete search history. WA (US); James Q. Stafford-Fraser, (56) References Cited Cambridge (GB) U.S. PATENT DOCUMENTS (73) Assignee: Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US) 3,899,687 A 8, 1975 Jones (*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this 4,052,0583,917,317 A 10/197711/1975 HintzRyan patent is extended or adjusted under 35 U.S.C. 154(b) by 0 days. (Continued) This patent is Subject to a terminal dis- FOREIGN PATENT DOCUMENTS claimer. EP O424803 5, 1991 (21) Appl. No.: 14/302,023 EP O544434 6, 1993 (Continued) (22) Filed: Jun. 11, 2014 OTHER PUBLICATIONS (65) Prior Publication Data European Search Report for EP Application No. 05733819 dated Mar. 31, 2009. US 2014/02943O2 A1 Oct. 2, 2014 (Continued) Primary Examiner — Jose Couso Related U.S. Application Data (74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm — Fish & Richardson P.C. (60) Continuation of application No. 13/614,770, filed on (57) ABSTRACT Sep. 13, 2012, now Pat. No. 8,781,228, which is a A system for processing text captured from rendered docu continuation of application No. 13/031,316, filed on ments is described. The system receives a sequence of one or Feb. 21, 2011, now Pat. No. 8,447,111, which is a more words optically or acoustically captured from a ren dered document by a user. The system identifies among words (Continued) of the sequence a word with which an action has been asso (51) Int. Cl ciated. The system then performs the associated action with G06K 9/34 (2006.01) respect to the user. G06F 7/30 (2006.01) 20 Claims, 8 Drawing Sheets 38arch & cortext arlaysis US 9,116,890 B2 Page 2 Related U.S. Application Data Aug. 27, 2004, provisional application No. 60/605, 105, filed on Aug. 27, 2004, provisional application continuation of application No. 12/538,731, filed on No. 60/604,103, filed on Aug. 23, 2004, provisional Aug. 10, 2009, now Pat. 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