BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
This patent application is an improvement on the invention found in U.S.
Patent Numbers: US 6,043,761 to Burrell, IV, U.S. 6,184,803 to Burrell, IV
and US 6,232,892 to Burrell, IV. The alphabetic code shown in figures 2A through
2C of the prior art, was invented in August of 1972. In November of 1972, the
inventor went on a school field trip to Princeton. Mr. Burrell sat and talked
with ex-New Jersey governor Thomas Kean’s grandmother, Mary Alice Kean,
the entire way to Princeton. Mrs. Kean invited the young Mr. Burrell to join her
for her meeting with the developers of today’s Internet. One of the Internet
developers explained the project they were working on. Mr. Burrell briefly
explained the invention he was working on, which allowed for the entry of
alphanumeric data through the standard twelve key telephone keypad. One of the
developers said that they were looking at the Flanagan invention and a means of
assigning alphanumeric data strings to addresses, instead of the numbers and
decimal points which were being used. They were contemplating on the use of the
hyphen instead of the space, only because you can see it and it was already
being used in telephone numbers. Mr. Burrell argued for
the use of the space, because the space occurs the most often in normal
communication and language, but then agreed to the hyphen because you can see
it. Mr. Burrell then modified the invention he was working on to use the
hyphen / dash / minus sign, which can be found in this patent application.
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