Patent application number | Description | Published |
20100134419 | Handheld Electronic Device Providing Proposed Corrected Input In Response to Erroneous Text Entry In Environment of Text Requiring Multiple Sequential Actuations of the Same Key, and Associated Method - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able in certain circumstances of erroneous input to provide proposed corrected output. | 06-03-2010 |
20100138741 | Handheld Electronic Device With Text Disambiguation Allowing Dynamic Expansion of Input Key Associations - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. 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. The device enables editing during text entry and also provides a learning function that allows the disambiguation function to adapt to provide a customized experience for the user. The disambiguation function can be selectively disabled and an alternate keystroke interpretation system provided. Additionally, the device can facilitate the selection of variants by displaying a graphic of a special key of the keypad that enables a user to progressively select variants generally without changing the position of the user's hands on the device. If a field into which text is being entered is determined to be a special input field, a disambiguated result can be sought first from a predetermined data source prior to seeking results from other data sources on the device. | 06-03-2010 |
20100332976 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING OPTIMIZED SPELL CHECKING DURING TEXT ENTRY BY PROVIDING A SEQUENTIALLY ORDERED SERIES OF SPELL-CHECK ALGORITHMS - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with a disambiguation routine that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able to perform a spell check routine during input of a text entry. The spell check routine subjects a text entry to a sequentially ordered series of spell-check algorithms and ceases subjecting the text entry to further spell-check algorithms upon identification of a predetermined quantity of spell-check language objects. | 12-30-2010 |
20110202335 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE PROVIDING A LEARNING FUNCTION TO FACILITATE CORRECTION OF ERRONEOUS TEXT ENTRY AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device provides a learning function which facilitates providing proposed corrected output by the device in certain circumstances of erroneous input. | 08-18-2011 |
20110258539 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING SPELL CHECKING DURING TEXT ENTRY AND FOR PROVIDING A SPELL-CHECK LEARNING FEATURE - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with a disambiguation routine that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able to perform a spell check routine during input of a text entry and to learn and automatically correct mistakes typically made by the particular user. | 10-20-2011 |
20120215522 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE PROVIDING A LEARNING FUNCTION TO FACILITATE CORRECTION OF ERRONEOUS TEXT ENTRY, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device provides a learning function which facilitates providing proposed corrected output by the device in certain circumstances of erroneous input. | 08-23-2012 |
20120271620 | WORD COMPLETION IN A HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for enabling generation of text on a handheld electronic device which has a plurality of input members, at least some of which have a number of linguistic elements assigned thereto, and a memory having language objects stored therein. The method comprises enabling detection of a number of input member actuations corresponding with an ambiguous input, making at least one of a determination that the number of actuations exceeds a first threshold and a determination that a quantity of predicted language objects corresponding with the ambiguous input is less than a second threshold, generating prefix objects corresponding with the ambiguous input and predicted language objects corresponding with the ambiguous input, each predicted language object comprising a prefix object portion and a completion portion, and providing at a text input location an output comprising a prefix object and a completion portion of a first predicted language object. | 10-25-2012 |
20130013293 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE PROVIDING A LEARNING FUNCTION TO FACILITATE CORRECTION OF ERRONEOUS TEXT ENTRY, AND ASSOCIATED METHOD - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device provides a learning function which facilitates providing proposed corrected output by the device in certain circumstances of erroneous input. | 01-10-2013 |
20130120277 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISAMBIGUATION OF TEXT INPUT PROVIDING ARTIFICIAL VARIANTS COMPRISED OF CHARACTERS IN A CORE ALPHABET - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able to generate artificial variants in certain circumstances. The artificial variants comprise characters within a core alphabet of the device and are free of extended characters that may otherwise be active on the device. | 05-16-2013 |
20130145261 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING OPTIMIZED SPELL CHECKING DURING TEXT ENTRY BY PROVIDING A SEQUENTIALLY ORDERED SPELL-CHECK ALGORITHMS - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with a disambiguation routine that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able to perform a spell check routine during input of a text entry. The spell check routine subjects a text entry to a sequentially ordered series of spell-check algorithms and ceases subjecting the text entry to further spell-check algorithms upon identification of a predetermined quantity of spell-check language objects. | 06-06-2013 |
20130222259 | WORD COMPLETION IN A HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE - A method for enabling generation of text on a handheld electronic device which has a plurality of input members, at least some of which have a number of linguistic elements assigned thereto, and a memory having language objects stored therein. The method comprises enabling detection of a number of input member actuations corresponding with an ambiguous input, making at least one of a determination that the number of actuations exceeds a first threshold and a determination that a quantity of predicted language objects corresponding with the ambiguous input is less than a second threshold, generating prefix objects corresponding with the ambiguous input and predicted language objects corresponding with the ambiguous input, each predicted language object comprising a prefix object portion and a completion portion, and providing at a text input location an output comprising a prefix object and a completion portion of a first predicted language object. | 08-29-2013 |
20130246043 | METHOD OF E-MAIL ADDRESS SEARCH AND E-MAIL ADDRESS TRANSLITERATION AND ASSOCIATED DEVICE - An improved method of transliterating non-Latin input within an e-mail address field to the Latin equivalent. A routine in a handheld device is structured to detect a triggering event that indicates an e-mail address is being input into an e-mail address field. Following the triggering event, both prior and subsequent input is transliterated to Latin characters as these characters are required by Internet protocols. The transliteration routine may also be utilized to search an email address book wherein names are recorded using both Latin and non-Latin characters. | 09-19-2013 |
20130289979 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISAMBIGUATION OF TEXT INPUT PROVIDING SUPPRESSION OF LOW PROBABILITY ARTIFICIAL VARIANTS - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input, the device is able to generate artificial variants in certain circumstances. Each artificial variant is compared with N-gram data on the handheld electronic device and is suppressed from being output if the artificial variant is determined to have a low probability of being the input intended by a user. | 10-31-2013 |