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Method and system for providing word recommendations for text input

A technology for inputting characters and implementing methods, which is applied in the input/output process of data processing, electrical digital data processing, instruments, etc., and can solve problems such as low process efficiency, reduced satisfaction, and typing errors

Inactive Publication Date: 2010-02-03
APPLE INC
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Both of these can lead to typos and thus more backtracking to correct errors
This makes the process of communicating via text on the device inefficient and reduces user satisfaction with such portable communication devices

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[0022] Reference will now be made in detail to embodiments, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. In the following detailed description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. It will be apparent, however, to one skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known methods, procedures, components, circuits and networks have not been described in detail so as not to unnecessarily obscure aspects of the embodiments.

[0023] The portable communication device includes a user interface and a text input device. Through the interface and the text input device, the user can input text in the device. The text includes words as sequences of characters separated by spaces or specific punctuation. For the word being input or the word already input, the device recognizes and provides word suggestion, and the user can ...

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Word recommendations are provided in response to text input. For a particular text input, possible word recommendations are identified based on the characters of the input and corresponding neighbor characters on a keyboard layout. The possible word recommendations are scored based on how closely they match the input word on a character-by-character basis, and a subset of the possible word recommendations are selected for presentation to the user.

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technical field [0001] The disclosed embodiments relate generally to text entry on portable communication devices, and more particularly to methods and systems for providing word suggestions in response to text entry. Background technique [0002] In recent years, the functionality of portable communication devices has proliferated. Current devices enable communication via voice, text, and still or moving images. Communicating via text, such as via email, instant messaging (IM) or short messaging service (SMS), has proven quite popular. [0003] However, the size of these portable communication devices also limits the size of text input devices (eg, physical or virtual keyboards) in portable devices. With keyboards of limited size, designers are often forced to make the keys smaller or overload the keys. Both of these can lead to typing errors and thus more backtracking to correct errors. This makes the process of communicating via text on the device inefficient and redu...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F3/023G06F3/048G06F40/00
CPCG06F3/0237
Inventor G·克里斯蒂B·奥丁S·福斯塔K·科西恩达R·威廉姆森J·R·贝尔加达
Owner APPLE INC
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