Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
715261000 | Input of abbreviated word form | 71 |
20080270895 | METHOD, COMPUTER PROGRAM, USER INTERFACE, AND APPARATUS FOR PREDICTIVE TEXT INPUT - A method for predictive text input is disclosed. The method includes receiving a punctuation symbol at text input; determining, from a set of stored punctuation symbol combinations, a set of punctuation symbol combination candidates; and presenting the set of punctuation symbol combination candidates for enabling selective input from the punctuation symbol combination candidates. A computer program, a user interface, and an apparatus is also disclosed. | 10-30-2008 |
20080270896 | System and method for preview and selection of words - A system, method and computer-readable medium that previews words and commands recognized by a continuous stroke recognizer based on input into a virtual keyboard layout is presented. The system and method allows a user to see the word that will be recognized or output before the user commits the continuous stroke input to the system. Further, after recognition and output, the system presents the recognized output word and the closest word candidates in a correction display integrated with the virtual keyboard layout. Among other things, the user is provided with options to change the current output word by selecting another word candidate on the correction display, and to delete the current output word by selecting the representation of the current output word on the correction display. | 10-30-2008 |
20080270897 | One-row keyboard and approximate typing - In one aspect, the present invention comprises an apparatus for character entry on an electronic device, comprising: a keyboard with one row of keys; and an electronic display device in communication with the keyboard; wherein one or more keys on the keyboard has a correspondence with a plurality of characters, and wherein the correspondence enables QWERTY-based typing. In another aspect, the invention comprises an apparatus for character entry on an electronic device, comprising: a keyboard with a plurality of keys; and an electronic display device in communication with the keyboard; wherein one or more keys on the keyboard has a correspondence with a plurality of characters, and wherein, for each of the one or more keys, the plurality of characters comprises: (a) a home row character associated with a particular finger when touch typing; and (b) a non-home-row character associated with the particular finger when touch typing. | 10-30-2008 |
20080282154 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR IMPROVED TEXT INPUT - A method for providing a combined set of proposed words from a predictive text engine, as well as a module, an apparatus, a system and a computer readable medium. Generally, according to the method, a number of key input actuations is received via e.g. a keypad. Then, a first set of proposed words based upon the key input actuations is determined, using a predictive text engine, and shown to the user. Upon the determination of the first set, a speech input device and a speech recognition engine is activated and a speech input is received. Based on the speech input, using a the speech recognition engine, a second set of proposed words is determined. Finally, the first and second set of proposed words are combined into the combined set of proposed words. | 11-13-2008 |
20080294982 | PROVIDING RELEVANT TEXT AUTO-COMPLETIONS - A processing device, such as, for example, a tablet PC, or other processing device, may receive non-textual language input. The non-textual language input may be recognized to produce one or more textual characters. The processing device may generate a list including one or more prefixes based on the produced one or more textual characters. Multiple text auto-completion predictions may be generated based on multiple prediction data sources and the one or more prefixes. The multiple text auto-completion predictions may be ranked and sorted based on features associated with each of the text auto-completion predictions. The processing device may present a predetermined number of best text auto-completion predictions. A selection of one of the presented predetermined number of best text auto completion predictions may result in a word, currently being entered, being replaced by the selected one of the predetermined number of best text auto completion predictions. | 11-27-2008 |
20090055732 | Human-to-mobile interfaces - A method of for a mobile telephone data input apparatus comprising a plurality of data input keys having multi-character indicia, said method adapted to facilitate a reduction in the number of user interactions required to create a given data string to less than the number of characters within said data string, the method comprising the following steps: storing a set of data strings each with a priority indicator associated therewith, wherein the indicator is a measure of a plurality of derivatives associated with the data string; recognising an event; looking up the most likely subsequent data string to follow the event from the set of data strings based on one or more of the plurality of derivatives; ordering the data strings for display based on the priority indicator of that data string; if the required subsequent data string is included in the list selecting the required subsequent data string; if the required subsequent data string is not included in the list entering a event and repeating steps b to e; updating the priority indicator of the selected data string; updating the set of data strings based on the updated priority indicator. | 02-26-2009 |
20090063962 | Handheld Electronic Device and Associated Method Providing Disambiguation of an Ambiguous Input and Selectively Providing Prediction of Future Characters - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software and prediction software. In response to an ambiguous input, the system provides one or more disambiguated interpretations of the ambiguous input. In some circumstances, the system can additionally provide one or more completions, i.e., predictions of future characters. However, in other circumstances the outputting of completions of an ambiguous input can be suppressed in order to avoid distracting the user and to provide more meaningful results to the user. | 03-05-2009 |
20090119582 | Handheld Electronic Device and Method for Dual-Mode Disambiguation of Text Input - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In response to an ambiguous editing input at a location preceding at least a portion of an output word, the software performs one disambiguation operation with respect to the editing input and another disambiguation operation with respect to the editing input in combination with the at least portion of the output word. The results are output in order of decreasing frequency value, with the results of the one disambiguation operation having the portion of the output word appended thereto. | 05-07-2009 |
20090125807 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WORDWISE PREDICTIVE CHINESE CHARACTER INPUT - A method for wordwise predictive Chinese character input includes following steps of: inputting a first Chinese character; generating a first prediction list of Chinese characters; displaying the first Chinese character and the first prediction list of Chinese characters; storing the first Chinese character and the first prediction list of Chinese characters; inputting a second Chinese character or selecting a second Chinese character; generating a second prediction list of Chinese characters; displaying the second Chinese character and the second prediction list of Chinese characters; storing the second Chinese character and the second prediction list of Chinese characters; deleting the second Chinese character and the second prediction list of Chinese characters if a clear key is pressed; and displaying the first Chinese character and the first prediction list of Chinese characters. | 05-14-2009 |
20090158143 | INSTANTANEOUS SYMBOL LOOKUP - A computer program assists in the completion of text input provided by a user. For example, the computer program may maintain a list of n-tuples (where n>1), each of which includes n text strings. For example, each n-tuple may include a stock ticker symbol and the name of a company having that stock ticker symbol. As the user types each character, the program determines whether the text typed by the user so far matches any of the text strings in the n-tuples. The program provides the user with an indication of whether any matches have been found, such as by displaying a list of the n-tuples having text matching the text typed by the user so far. The program then allows the user to select one of the matching n-tuples. The program uses text (such as a stock ticker symbol) from the user's selection to complete the text input. | 06-18-2009 |
20090158144 | TEXT INPUT SYSTEM FOR A MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHODS THEREOF - Overlapping areas of a touch interface of a mobile electronic device are associated with letters such that each area is associated with only one letter. The location of a user's touch on the touch interface is detected. Based on the location, more than one letter may be identified. If more than one letter is identified, predictive text software is used to determine which of the identified letters the user intended to select. The touch interface may be a touchscreen or one or more touchpads. | 06-18-2009 |
20090193333 | INSTANTANEOUS SYMBOL LOOKUP - A computer program assists in the completion of text input provided by a user. For example, the computer program may maintain a list of n-tuples (where n>1), each of which includes n text strings. For example, each n-tuple may include a stock ticker symbol and the name of a company having that stock ticker symbol. As the user types each character, the program determines whether the text typed by the user so far matches any of the text strings in the n-tuples. The program provides the user with an indication of whether any matches have been found, such as by displaying a list of the n-tuples having text matching the text typed by the user so far. The program then allows the user to select one of the matching n-tuples. The program uses text (such as a stock ticker symbol) from the user's selection to complete the text input. | 07-30-2009 |
20090193334 | PREDICTIVE TEXT INPUT SYSTEM AND METHOD INVOLVING TWO CONCURRENT RANKING MEANS - The present invention relates to a text input device and a method for inputting text. The method comprises the step of predicting a ranked list of candidate words for text input, based on textual context. In a next step, the method displays the list of candidate words in alphabetical order, i.e. not according to the ranking determined by the prediction algorithm. Instead of indicating the ranking of a candidate word by its relative position within the list of candidate words, the method indicates the ranking of the candidate words by visual prominence. In response to the displayed list of candidate words, the method proceeds in receiving a user input regarding the intended word. | 07-30-2009 |
20090199092 | DATA ENTRY SYSTEM - A data entry system includes a plurality of keys each of which has two or more symbols associated with each key and a means for receiving a second specific input from a user. A third correction key is provided, where a user enters a desired input by pressing one or more of the plurality of keys corresponding to the symbols required for the desired input and further provides a second specific input also relating to at least a portion of the desired input, such that the system produces a response to the desired input by predicting the desired input based on the symbols pressed by the user and based on the second specific input. If the produced response is different than the desired input, the user may press the correction key to scroll through additional less frequent responses from the system also matching the symbols pressed and the second specific input. | 08-06-2009 |
20090249198 | TECHNIQUES FOR INPUT RECOGNITON AND COMPLETION - Methods and apparatus are described by which one or more input words may be predicted based on partial input from a user using a predictive model that employs contextual metadata which characterizes the user in a multi-dimensional space in which the dimensions are defined by one or more of a spatial aspect, a temporal aspect, a social aspect, or a topical aspect. | 10-01-2009 |
20090249199 | Method of Learning Character Segments During Text Input, and Associated Handheld Electronic Device - An improved method of learning character segments during text input enables facilitated text input on an improved handheld electronic device. In response to a series of inputs, segments and other objects are analyzed to generate a proposed character interpretation of the series of inputs. Responsive to detecting a replacement of a character of the character interpretation with another character, a character learning string comprising the another character and a number of additional characters of the character interpretation are stored as a candidate. In response to another series of inputs, another proposed character interpretation is generated. Responsive to detecting another replacement of a character of the another character interpretation with a different character, another character learning string comprising the different character and a number of characters of the another character interpretation are compared with the stored candidate. If a set of characters in the another character learning string match characters in the candidate, the set of characters are stored as a segment. | 10-01-2009 |
20090265619 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH DISAMBIGUATION OF COMPOUND WORD TEXT INPUT EMPLOYING SEPARATING INPUT - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate compound word text input. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood that a user intended a particular output, but various features of the device provide additional variants that are not based solely on frequency and rather are provided by various logic structures resident on the device. | 10-22-2009 |
20090271700 | TEXT TYPE-AHEAD - Methods and arrangements of text entry are discussed. Embodiments include transformations, code, state machines or other logic to index segments of text from multiple sources and receive segments of text being entered into text-entry applications in a floating application. The embodiments may also involve matching the segments of text to indexed segments of text and entering completions of the received segments of text into the text-entry applications. The completions may be based upon the matching, and the completion of a segment may be entered into the text-entry application from which it was received. | 10-29-2009 |
20090327880 | TEXT INPUT - A mobile communications device including a receiver for receiving metadata; a memory for storing the received metadata; a user interface for receiving user input defining a first string of characters; a controller for searching the metadata for the first string of characters by traversing the received metadata and extracting at least one second string of characters, wherein the at least one second string of characters is embedded in the metadata and wherein a first part of the at least one second string of characters matches the first string of characters; wherein the user interface is configured to display the at least one second string of characters for selection; and wherein the controller is arranged to instruct the memory to, in a case one of the at least one second string is selected, store the at least one second string in a first predictive text dictionary. | 12-31-2009 |
20090327881 | Facility information display systems, methods, and programs - Systems, methods, and programs for displaying facility information receive an input letter string representing a search condition, refer to stored facility data, and search for facilities including the input letter string. The systems, methods, and programs acquire facility information of facilities returned by the search, and compress the facility information to be displayed on a search result display screen in a display unit, the compression being based on the input letter string. | 12-31-2009 |
20100031143 | MULTIMODAL INTERFACE FOR INPUT OF TEXT - The disclosure describes an overall system/method for text-input using a multimodal interface with a combination of speech recognition and text prediction. Specifically, an “always listening” mode for entering words is combined with a push-to-speak mode for entering symbols and phrases. In addition, these two modes are further combined with keypad based text prediction. Finally, the overall user-interface of the proposed system is designed such that it enhances existing standard text-input methods; thereby minimizing the behavior change for mobile users. | 02-04-2010 |
20100064210 | TEXT ABBREVIATION METHODS AND APPARATUS AND SYSTEMS USING SAME630 - Text processors are configured to shorten or compact text based on one or more abbreviation libraries or rule libraries. Messaging methods include such text abbreviation processing to reduce message length based on display properties or to enhance user perception. Message length can be reduced based on abbreviations in a standard abbreviation list, a user specific abbreviation list, or a combination of standard and custom lists. In some examples, text length is shortened based on stored rules. Mobile stations that provide messaging services include text processors that reduce message length and can be configured to process text messages prior to transmission or after reception. Text processors are provided in association with word processors and presentation applications, and are configured to produce shortened text strings. In some examples, full-length text remains is stored so that both shortened text and full text are available. Selection of text processor parameters can be based on a graphical user interface. | 03-11-2010 |
20100070855 | AUTOMATIC DYNAMIC CONTEXTUAL DATA ENTRY COMPLETION SYSTEM - A method, performed in a character entry system involves computing contextual associations between multiple character strings based upon occurrence of character strings relative to each other in documents present in the system, wherein the computing contextual associations involves i) identifying pertinent documents present in the system, ii) creating a list of character strings contained within documents in the system; and iii) creating an interrelationship between the character strings to contents of the system; in response to the user inputting a specified threshold of individual characters, identifying at least one selectable character string from among the character strings used in creating the computed contextual associations that can complete the incomplete input character string in context; providing the identified at least one selectable character string to a user for selection; and receiving, in the system, the user's selection and completing the incomplete input character string based upon the selection | 03-18-2010 |
20100100817 | TEXT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE - Text management software system which stores and retrieves text as paragraph size Text Fragments. Each fragment is stored in a separate record in a text store. As text is created and is to be saved to a text store, the system is adapted to break the text into paragraph size text fragments. As or before text is stored the system runs statistical comparisons between text fragments and builds a matrix of similarity between the text fragments stored in the separate records and presents these to the author for substitution. | 04-22-2010 |
20100115402 | SYSTEM FOR DATA ENTRY USING MULTI-FUNCTION KEYS - In a method, apparatus, and system of data entry, input is monitored from a plurality of input keys, including a plurality of multi-function keys. A prefix associated with at least one entry in a dictionary is generated in response to input received from at least one of the plurality of input keys. A set of predicted following characters is generated each having a representation in the dictionary immediately subsequent to the position of the prefix in one or more dictionary entries. Each predicted following character is associated with a character in a dictionary entry and with a preference value associated with that character. A dynamically ordered sequence of available following characters is generated in respect of an actuated one of the plurality of multi-function keys, comprising one or more of the predicted following characters. When the dynamically ordered sequence of available following characters comprises a plurality of predicted following characters, the predicted following characters are arranged in an order based on associated preference values. A following character hypothesis is then generated comprising a character in the dynamically ordered sequence of available following characters. | 05-06-2010 |
20100146386 | Chinese Phonetic Alphabet and Phonetic Notation Input Method for Entering Multiword by Using Numerals of Keypad - The present invention provides a numeric coded Pinyin and Zhuyin multi-character input method on a reduced keypad, in which each Chinese phrase is mapped to corresponding numeric sequences based on full syllable or initial consonant of a syllable inputting rule and the keypad mapping relation, accordingly, phrases of different phonetic pronunciation may be mapped to a same numeric sequence; in the case of consecutively receiving a numeric keystroke sequence which represents of several desired Chinese characters but pronunciation still undetermined, a processor immediately searches the phrases' numeric sequences which are matched with keystroke sequence and present these mixed phrase candidates to user even though these candidates may have different pronunciation; further, an initial syllable grouping and cycling rule is specially defined, along with a key for switching between character candidate priority and phrase candidate priority, additionally, define an equal-length candidate filtering code keystroke, and a key for determining syllable by character and the like to accelerate the choice of candidate phrases and facilitate the realization of PC-like Chinese phrase consecutive inputting on the reduced keypad. | 06-10-2010 |
20100169770 | INPUT METHOD EDITOR HAVING A SECONDARY LANGUAGE MODE - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which an input method editor receives a mode control input and determines a language mode based on the mode control input. Upon receiving composition inputs, the input method editor interprets the composition input based on the determined language mode. | 07-01-2010 |
20100199176 | ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TEXT PREDICTION FUNCTION AND METHOD - An electronic device has a predictive text entry function. The electronic device may include a display for displaying a graphical text entry interface in the form of a mind map to a user and a control circuit that controls the displayed content of the mind map. The control circuit may be configured to receive a starting text input from the user and associate the starting text input with a center of the mind map. The control circuit also may be configured to analyze the starting text input to establish branches of additional text from which the user may select to add text to the starting text. | 08-05-2010 |
20100199177 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR EXTRACTING AND MANAGING MESSAGE ADDRESSES - A system and method is disclosed for extracting and maintaining in a virtual address book one or more electronic mail addresses from one or more of the various address fields (e.g., “From,” “To,” “Cc,” “Bcc”) of one or more e-mail messages either transmitted from or received at a predetermined network node (e.g., a client or server). Electronic mail addresses stored in the virtual address book may be made available to “auto-complete” capabilities utilized during the addressing of electronic mail messages. | 08-05-2010 |
20100223547 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IMPROVED ADDRESS ENTRY - An improved system and method for address entry are provided for a user to enter a plurality of addresses into a recipient field of an electronic communication composition application. According to embodiments described herein, an auto-complete list is generated based on an input indicative of at least a portion of a current recipient address and is additionally based on a previously entered recipient address, and the auto-complete list is then displayed. | 09-02-2010 |
20100293457 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ALPHANUMERIC NAVIGATION AND INPUT - Systems and methods for supporting user input in a media guidance application is provided. A visual keypad including a non-alphanumeric pane with at least one non-alphanumeric or function button may rotate, or orbit, around some or all of the core alphabet block. The non-alphanumeric pane may be redisplayed or repositioned closer or adjacent to the current cursor position within the visual keypad. Enhanced user input features, such as automatic string completion, automatic next character selection, automatic cursor movement, and automatic character removal, may be combined with the non-alphanumeric pane. | 11-18-2010 |
20110029862 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTEXT BASED PREDICTIVE TEXT ENTRY ASSISTANCE - A device is provided for executing a method for providing context based predictive text entry. The device has a processor and a keyboard, a display screen, and a storage device connected to the processor. The method comprises receiving an input from the keyboard, the input comprising a character of a string; gathering relevant contextual data based on the input; retrieving any relevant stored data from the storage device based on the input; generating at least one context based prediction based on the received input, the contextual data, and any relevant stored data; displaying at least one option for completing the string on the display screen based on the at least one prediction; and completing the string if one of the options displayed on the display screen is selected by way of a further input. | 02-03-2011 |
20110047456 | Method and Apparatus for Text Input - A method and apparatus for text entry are provided. The method provides a keypad comprising four directional keys and a center selection key, and assigns a set of letters to each of the four directional keys. A representation of the set of letters assigned to each of the four directional keys is provided. A sequence of selected directional keys is received in accordance with a user input, and in accordance with the selected directional keys, the set of letters assigned to each of the selected directional keys are selectively passed to a parsing algorithm. The parsing algorithm determines a user intended text input based upon the passed sequence of letter groupings. | 02-24-2011 |
20110047457 | System and Method for Managing Acronym Expansions - Systems and methods for managing acronym expansions are described. In one example, the method comprises creating from the plurality of identified expansions a case-insensitive group of identified expansions, wherein each identified expansion of the case-insensitive group match in a case-insensitive manner the other identified expansions of the case-insensitive group. The method also comprises assigning a weight to the text source location for each identified expansion in the case-insensitive group. The method further comprises creating from the case-insensitive group at least one case-sensitive group of identified expansions, wherein each identified expansion of the case-sensitive group of identified expansions match in a case-sensitive manner the other identified expansions of the group of case-sensitive identified expansions. The method also comprises for each case-sensitive group of identified expansions, determining from the weights of the text source locations for the identified expansions a total weight. The method further comprises comparing the total weights for the at least one group of case-sensitive identified expansions. The method also comprises selecting a first group of case-sensitive identified expansions from the at least one group of case-sensitive identified expansions upon comparing the total weights. The method further comprises associating an identified expansion corresponding to the first case-sensitive group of identified expansions to the potential acronym. | 02-24-2011 |
20110060984 | Method and apparatus for word prediction of text input by assigning different priorities to words on a candidate word list according to how many letters have been entered so far by a user - A method for word prediction of text input on an electronic device includes receiving from a user interface a number of letters, performing word correction according to the received letters to thereby generate a set of first candidate words that have a number of letters being within a predetermined range, performing word completion according to the letters inputted to thereby generate a set of second candidate words that have more letters than the number of letters inputted so far, outputting a word candidate list via the user interface in an order according to a priority ranking. A higher priority is assigned to the first candidate words while the number of letters inputted so far is within the predetermined range; otherwise, a higher priority is assigned to the second candidate words. | 03-10-2011 |
20110078563 | PROXIMITY WEIGHTED PREDICTIVE KEY ENTRY - A portable device may attempt to predict words input by a user. In one implementation, the portable device may generate candidate words that correspond to predictions of the word being entered by the user. The candidate words being generated based on the characters input by the user of the portable device, characters in proximity to a last entered one of the input characters, and distance factors calculated based on distances between a touch-point on the a virtual keyboard and characters in proximity to the touch-point. | 03-31-2011 |
20110087961 | Method and System for Assisting in Typing - The invention relates to a computerized system for predicting completions to input text which is typed by a user to a text-oriented active application within a client computer, which comprises: (a) an off-line server that gathers texts from textual repositories, analyzes and processes the same to produce entries for an off-line database, said off-line server updates periodically a real time database of a real time server; (b) a real-time prediction server for receiving from an agent at said client computer serial requests for predictions, extracting in response to each of said requests one or more text predictions from tables within said real time database, and for conveying said one or more text predictions to said agent, wherein each of said text predictions comprises one or more words; (c) said real time database which comprises one or more tables containing word combination entries of various sizes, wherein each of said entries is associated with a weight which is used to estimate the probability for this combination to complete the typed text as included in the respective request for prediction; and (d) said agent which extracts in real time each present user typing to said text-oriented application, produces requests for prediction for new typing, sends the same to said prediction server, receives in response said one or more text predictions, and presents to said user said one or more text predictions for selection. | 04-14-2011 |
20110131488 | WORD INPUT METHOD - The present invention provides a word input method including the steps of selectively inputting one or more letters containing the first letter of the word to be inputted; extracting, as a first priority, a word having less letters than a predetermined number, and which coincides with the word to be inputted, in a sequence from the first letter, from words containing one or more letters, from a word storage unit; extracting, as a second priority, a word having less letters than the predetermined number, from words containing one or more letters, from the word storage unit; extracting, as a third priority, a word having more letters than the predetermined number, and which coincides with the word to be inputted, in a sequence from the first letter, from words containing one or more letters, from the word storage unit; extracting, as a fourth priority, a word having more letters than the predetermined number, from words containing one or more letters, from the word storage unit; dividing the words of the first priority to the fourth priority into the group having less letters than the predetermined number and the group having more letters than the predetermined number, and displaying the groups in the order of frequency on a word display window; and enabling the letters to be converted and completed into a selected word during inputting when the word is selected by a user from among the words displayed on the word display window. | 06-02-2011 |
20110154193 | Method and Apparatus for Text Input - In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising receiving a first text input at a first point in time, providing a first completion candidate for the first text input, receiving a second text input at a second point in time, determining a time difference between the second point in time and the first point in time and providing a second completion candidate for the second text input based on at least the first completion candidate and the time difference. | 06-23-2011 |
20110209054 | INSTANTANEOUS SYMBOL LOOKUP - A computer program assists in the completion of text input provided by a user. For example, the computer program may maintain a list of n-tuples (where n>1), each of which includes n text strings. For example, each n-tuple may include a stock ticker symbol and the name of a company having that stock ticker symbol. As the user types each character, the program determines whether the text typed by the user so far matches any of the text strings in the n-tuples. The program provides the user with an indication of whether any matches have been found, such as by displaying a list of the n-tuples having text matching the text typed by the user so far. The program then allows the user to select one of the matching n-tuples. The program uses text (such as a stock ticker symbol) from the user's selection to complete the text input. | 08-25-2011 |
20110219299 | METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING COMPLETION SUGGESTION TO A PARTIAL LINGUISTIC ELEMENT - A method of acquiring one or more completion suggestions to a partial linguistic element. The method comprises detecting a user input having at least a partial linguistic element, selecting a group from a plurality of linguistic elements according to the partial linguistic element, each member of the group having at least one common character with the partial linguistic element, identifying at least one contextual characteristic of the partial linguistic element, prioritizing members of the group according to a match between the at least one contextual characteristic and a dataset mapping a plurality of contextual characteristics of each the linguistic element, and presenting at least some of the prioritized members as at least one completion suggestion to the partial linguistic element. | 09-08-2011 |
20110239112 | COMPUTER READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM HAVING INPUT PROGRAM STORED THEREIN, SYSTEM, AND INPUT METHOD - A game apparatus, when receiving an input of an input character by a user, obtains and displays option character strings corresponding to the input character. The option character strings displayed here are option character strings that are connectable to a word preceding the input character. Displayed as the option character strings in this manner are only character strings, each of which does not form an inappropriate expression when connected to the word preceding or following the input character. When the user has selected an option character string from these option character strings, the game apparatus determines the option character string to be a fixed character string, and displays and stores the fixed character string. | 09-29-2011 |
20120005576 | DEVICE INCORPORATING IMPROVED TEXT INPUT MECHANISM - A device including a display screen for displaying m-words of data, a text entry device for entering data, a processor receiving data from the text entry device and causing it to be displayed on the display screen. Upon activation the processor initializes a precursor to a predefined value. The device further includes a non-volatile memory storing a dictionary containing a plurality of entries, each entry including an index, a candidate word, and a score. The processor selects a list of n-number of candidate words from the dictionary whose index matches the precursor, and causes m-number of candidate words from the list of candidate words to be displayed on the display screen. The processor causes the display to prompt the user to select one of the displayed candidate words or enter a desired word using the text entry device. | 01-05-2012 |
20120036430 | Input Shortcuts for a Communications Device - A method of inputting an electronic address into a text field on a communications device is disclosed, as well as a device and controller for implementing the method. The method includes: receiving, through a user input interface of the device, an input corresponding to a predetermined delimiter; selecting a non-text symbol character from a set of non-text symbol characters in dependence on a number of times the input corresponding to the predetermined delimiter has been repetitively input without any intervening inputs; and adding the selected non-text symbol character to the text field of the communications device when an input other than that corresponding to the predetermined delimiter is received. | 02-09-2012 |
20120079373 | Method, System, and Graphical User Interface for Providing Word Recommendations - One aspect of the invention involves a method that includes: in a first area of the touch screen, displaying a current character string being input by a user with the keyboard; in a second area of the touch screen, displaying the current character string or a portion thereof and a suggested replacement for the current character string; replacing the current character string in the first area with the suggested replacement if the user activates a delimiter key on the keyboard; replacing the current character string in the first area with the suggested replacement if the user performs a first gesture on the suggested replacement displayed in the second area; and keeping the current character string in the first area if the user performs a second gesture on the current character string or the portion thereof displayed in the second area. | 03-29-2012 |
20120089907 | Single Word and Multi-word Term Integrating System and a Method thereof - A single word and multi-word term integrating system and a method thereof are disclosed, wherein a user uses an input unit to continuously input pinying codes for the system to find combinations of the pinying codes to provide word candidates for the user to choose, wherein the word candidates can be combined into a phrase or a sentence; when the inputted pinying codes are too long or incomplete, there might be a false prediction of a word or a sentence due to an incorrect combination of pinying codes; consequently, the system forcibly determines the pinying codes to be regarded as a single word and does not combine them with the follow-up pinying codes; then the system uses a full sentence prediction result display unit for the user to choose a correct word, thereby improving prediction accuracy. | 04-12-2012 |
20120159317 | AUTOCOMPLETION METHOD AND SYSTEM - An implementation of an auto-completion or auto-correction mechanism where a dictionary of entry list look-up is triggered by the expiry of a time limit between data entry events such as key-press events, where the value of the time limit is dynamically determined as a function of the entry rate. The time limit may be calculated for example on the basis of an average entry rate, and may include an extra margin value. The occurrence of look up triggering will therefore tend to be optimised to the present user's data entry rate. | 06-21-2012 |
20120297294 | NETWORK SEARCH FOR WRITING ASSISTANCE - Architecture that utilizes web search implicitly to assist users in improving writing and associated productivity. The architecture extends the authoring experience of applications of office suite applications which can draw on a web search engine to offer contextual suggestions for revision, word auto-complete, and text prediction. Web-based research and reference to users is enabled as the user writes or revises text. Suggestions are made as to how to complete a phrase or sentence using data from networks such as the Internet or intranet, to how a user how revises a word or phrase in an already-written sentence using data from the network, and to problems in writing style/writing rules. Paragraph analysis is performed to find improper language usage or errors. Prediction and revision suggestions are extracted from web search or enterprise search document summaries, and intent of the user to obtain word completion, revision assistance, and prediction suggestions is identified. | 11-22-2012 |
20130091426 | DATA PROCESSING APPARATUS, INPUT SUPPORTING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - To present information that is likely to be input by a user as an input candidate in a case of supporting user input. | 04-11-2013 |
20130212475 | SUGGESTING RELEVANT TERMS DURING TEXT ENTRY - A system for suggesting autocompletion terms during text entry of a report. A text entry unit ( | 08-15-2013 |
20130262994 | DYNAMIC TEXT ENTRY/INPUT SYSTEM - The method, system and computer program product efficiently generates a target word by processing an input character sequence to an electronic device from a user utilizing an abbreviated word format. A dynamic text entry (DTE) logic/utility detects receipt of the input sequence that is provided by the user and, in response to receipt of the input character sequence, DTE logic determines from the input sequence whether there is a matching sequence stored in a particular DTE library accessible to DTE logic. If there is one target word that is mapped to the input sequence, DTE logic appropriately displays the target word instead of continuing to display the input sequence. However, if DTE logic determines that multiple candidate target words are available, DTE logic displays the candidate target words to enable the user to select the target word. If the number of target words exceeds a threshold maximum number, DTE logic enables the user to provide additional letters using the abbreviated word format. | 10-03-2013 |
20140026043 | COMPUTER PRODUCT, INPUT SUPPORT METHOD, AND INPUT SUPPORT APPARATUS - A computer-readable recording medium stores an input support program that causes a computer to execute a process that includes detecting a nearby character string of one character or more included in an area within a predetermined range of a selected input area on an image displayed on a screen; searching a database correlating and storing item names indicating input items and text examples corresponding to the input items, for a text example that is correlated with an item name indicating an input item corresponding to the detected nearby character string and that corresponds to the character string, upon receiving input of a character string of one character or more to the input area; and outputting as a conversion candidate of the character string, the text example retrieved at the searching. | 01-23-2014 |
20140129930 | KEYBOARD GESTURES FOR CHARACTER STRING REPLACEMENT - A computing device includes at least one processor and at least one module. The module may determine and output for display a list of one or more suggested character strings based on a first input received at a presence-sensitive display. The module may further receive an indication of a second user input detected at the presence-sensitive display. The module may further determine whether the second user input includes a replacement gesture, wherein the replacement gesture includes a first gesture in a substantially leftward direction and a second gesture in a substantially rightward direction. Responsive to determining that the received gesture input includes the replacement gesture, the module may output for display in place of the displayed text, a character string chosen from the list of one or more suggested character strings. | 05-08-2014 |
20140136967 | METHOD OF PROVIDING PREDICTIVE TEXT - A method comprises displaying, by an electronic device, a first string corresponding to a received input sequence, determining whether the first string comprises a first part of a complete storage address following a predetermined address convention, and responsive to the determining, displaying a second string associated with the first string and following the predetermined address convention. The second string is a second part of the complete storage address, and the complete storage address further comprises a third part following the second part. | 05-15-2014 |
20140317496 | KEYBOARD GESTURES FOR CHARACTER STRING REPLACEMENT - A computing device includes at least one processor and at least one module. The module may determine and output for display a list of one or more suggested character strings based on a first input received at a presence-sensitive display. The module may further receive an indication of a second user input detected at the presence-sensitive display. The module may further determine whether the second user input includes a replacement gesture, wherein the replacement gesture includes a first gesture in a substantially leftward direction and a second gesture in a substantially rightward direction. Responsive to determining that the received gesture input includes the replacement gesture, the module may output for display in place of the displayed text, a character string chosen from the list of one or more suggested character strings. | 10-23-2014 |
20140365879 | USING ALIASES FOR DATE ENTRY - Date entries may be made using aliases in place of a specific dates. Instead of a user having to locate or determine a specific date for a date entry field, the alias that represents the date may be entered in the date entry field. The date for the alias is determined from a context of the date entry. For example, the context may include a determination as to what application is requesting the date, what entity is associated with the date entry, and the like. In a payroll date example, a next pay date “NPD” alias may change based on the employee. The data used to determine the date that is represented by the alias may be one or more data sets. The aliases may be associated with more than one application. | 12-11-2014 |
20140365880 | UNIFIED RANKING WITH ENTROPY-WEIGHTED INFORMATION FOR PHRASE-BASED SEMANTIC AUTO-COMPLETION - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media related to a technique for combining two or more aspects of predictive information for auto-completion of user input, in particular, user commands directed to an intelligent digital assistant. Specifically, predictive information based on (1) usage frequency, (2) usage recency, and (3) semantic information encapsulated in an ontology (e.g., a network of domains) implemented by the digital assistant, are integrated in a balanced and sensible way within a unified framework, such that a consistent ranking of all completion candidates across all domains may be achieved. Auto-completions are selected and presented based on the unified ranking of all completion candidates. | 12-11-2014 |
20150067487 | INTELLIGENT AUTO COMPLETE - A method includes incorporating a local service within a user's device, accessing at least one external service via the user's device; starting a service request for the at least one external service from an input area of the user's device, causing the local service to determine at least one possible completion for the service request based on the input to the at least one external service, and providing the at least one possible completion to the input area of the user's device, wherein the local service consults at least one user context before providing the at least one possible completion to the input area of the user's device. | 03-05-2015 |
20150082158 | INDICATING A WORD LENGTH USING AN INPUT DEVICE - A method, apparatus, and program product are disclosed for receiving an input from an input device, determining one or more characteristics of the received input, the one or more characteristics indicating a word length, and presenting a list of one or more words having word lengths determined according to the indicated word length. | 03-19-2015 |
20150135065 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS AND METHOD - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a display processor. The display processor is configured to display one or more first strokes on a screen. The display processor is configured to display a plurality of candidates each indicative of one or more handwritten characters in a handwritten document, the plurality of candidates retrieved from the handwritten document by using the one or more first strokes, and is configured to arrange the plurality of candidates in an order determined by using number of strokes of each of the plurality of candidates and to display the plurality of arranged candidates. | 05-14-2015 |
20150370779 | CHARACTER RECOGNITION ON A COMPUTING DEVICE - In some embodiments, a device performs character recognition based on spatial and temporal components of touch input detected on a touch-sensitive surface. In some embodiments, a device provides feedback about handwritten input and its recognition by the device. In some embodiments, a device presents a user interface for changing previously-inputted characters. | 12-24-2015 |
20150378982 | CHARACTER ENTRY FOR AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE USING A POSITION SENSING KEYBOARD - The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for entering characters into an electronic device. Character inputs from a keyboard are displayed on a display of an electronic device and a set of suggested character sequences are also presented on the display in proximity to the displayed text. When a user digit position is sensed in a region of the keyboard, a suggested character sequence of the set of suggested character sequences that is associated with that region of the keyboard is visually indicated or highlighted. Responsive to a sensed motion gesture beginning at the sensed user digit position, the suggested character sequence indicated by the sensed user digit position is selected for input to the electronic device. | 12-31-2015 |
20150378983 | INCREMENTAL MULTI-WORD RECOGNITION - In one example, a computing device includes at least one processor that is operatively coupled to a presence-sensitive display and a gesture module operable by the at least one processor. The gesture module may be operable by the at least one processor to output, for display at the presence-sensitive display, a graphical keyboard comprising a plurality of keys and receive an indication of a continuous gesture detected at the presence-sensitive display, the continuous gesture to select a group of keys of the plurality of keys. The gesture module may be further operable to determine, in response to receiving the indication of the continuous gesture and based at least in part on the group of keys of the plurality of keys, a candidate phrase comprising a group of candidate words. | 12-31-2015 |
20160019203 | METHOD FOR QUICK INPUTTING IN A MOBILE DEVICE AND THE MOBILE DEVICE - A method for quick, inputting in a mobile device and the mobile device are disclosed. The method for achieving quick inputting in a mobile device comprises: receiving an instruction of selecting a candidate item from a user by the mobile device; determining whether the candidate item selected is the object name with the predetermined mark according to the instruction, where the predetermined mark is used to label a category of the object, and the object name marked in advance is stored in a glossary of an input application in advance; and if the candidate item selected is the object name with the predetermined mark, then acquiring information corresponding to the object and inserting the information as an inserted content, where the information corresponding to the object is information acquired from other than the current input application of the mobile device. | 01-21-2016 |
20160041965 | IMPROVED DATA ENTRY SYSTEMS - A word predictive data entry system includes a plurality of first input signals to which one to a few characters are assigned, and an input signal, separate from the plurality of first input signals, to which a significantly larger number of characters are ambiguously assigned. The system uses a database of words wherein upon receiving a sequence of the input signals the system predicts one or more words from the database of words. | 02-11-2016 |
20160041966 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR WORD PREDICTION SELECTION - Methods and apparatuses are provided for improving word prediction candidate selection in an electronic device. Input of one or more characters is received via a capacitive physical keyboard. A word prediction process generates a set of word prediction candidates, determines a unique character in each word prediction candidate, and displays the word prediction candidates along with visual indicia to indicate the unique character. A second input is then received comprising a tap input of a single character on the keyboard. The electronic device determines whether the second input corresponds to a unique character associated with any of the word prediction candidates, and if so, displays the selected word in an input field on the display. | 02-11-2016 |
20160092429 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus include a circuitry. The circuitry is configured to receive stroke data corresponding to a set of handwritten strokes including n strokes. The circuitry is configured to display, as a candidate for a handwriting input, a first set of strokes including strokes from a n | 03-31-2016 |
20160092430 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus is configured to display (1) a first set of first strokes specified based on at least one first stroke of the strokes and (2) a second set of second strokes specified based on at least one second stroke of the strokes as a candidate for handwriting input, the at least one second stroke different from the at least one first stroke. When the first set of first strokes or the second set of second strokes is selected, the at least one first stroke used to specify the first set of first strokes or the at least one second stroke used to specify the second set of second strokes is displayed visually distinguishable from other strokes of the strokes. | 03-31-2016 |
20160092431 | ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, METHOD AND STORAGE MEDIUM - According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus include a circuitry. The circuitry is configured to receive first stroke data corresponding to first strokes handwritten on a display, the first strokes including a stroke of a symbol. The circuitry is configured to display, as a candidate for handwriting input, sets of strokes obtained by retrieving by using at least one first stroke without the stroke of the symbol. | 03-31-2016 |
20160103808 | SYSTEM FOR HANDLING ABBREVIATION RELATED TEXT - Abbreviations can be handled by a computer system that receives a message that specifies a recipient and a sender. A first text portion is identified from the message as being associated with an abbreviation. A sender and receiver profile are used to identify a set of one or more solutions for the first text portion. The solutions are scored based upon the online content exposure information in the profile of the recipient. Based upon the scoring, a particular solution of the one or more solutions is identified for use. The text body of the message is modified to include the particular solution, and the modified message is transmitted to the recipient. | 04-14-2016 |
20160147731 | MESSAGE SENTIMENT ANALYZER AND FEEDBACK - This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus for generating a computer response to an incoming message. Incoming messages can be analyzed to determine a sentiment, and this sentiment can be put to various uses. For instance, when a reply message is created, the sentiment can be used to make suggestions or prompt the message creator to use different language tailored to the sentiment of the original sender. In other cases, creation of the message may be precluded until existing text is modified to better suit the recipient's sentiment. | 05-26-2016 |