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Handheld electronic device with reduced keyboard and associated method

A handheld electronic device and associated technology, which are applied in the fields of electrical digital data processing, input/output process of data processing, special data processing applications, etc., and can solve the problems of no storage of words and low frequency of use.

Active Publication Date: 2010-06-16
RES IN MOTION LTD
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Another exemplary situation where this phenomenon occurs is when words are already stored in the dictionary but are considered to be used relatively infrequently, requiring the user to make more effort to get the desired word
Also, the desired word may not be stored in the device's dictionary

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[0024] usually in figure 1 and figure 2 The figure shows an improved hand-held electronic device 4 according to the invention. The handheld electronic device 4 includes a housing 8 , input means 12 , output means 16 and processor means 20 . The present exemplary embodiment of the handheld electronic device 4 includes, but is not limited to, applications and / or routines resident thereon, such as disambiguation routines and email clients, and other and and / or additional applications and / or routines without departing from the inventive concept.

[0025]The input means includes a keypad 24 with a plurality of keys. In addition, the input device 12 also includes a track wheel 32 for additional input. Many keys 28 have one or more letters 30 assigned to them, and some keys 28 have multiple letters 30 assigned to them. In the exemplary embodiment, the example alphabet 30 is the Roman alphabet, and the example Roman alphabet is used as a linguistic element of the language entere...

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Abstract

An improved handheld electronic device having a reduced keyboard provides facilitated language entry by making available to a user certain words that a user may reasonably be expected to enter. In some situations, certain words can be stored, for example, in a temporary dictionary for use in particular situations. For instance, the names of the recipients of an electronic message might be stored in a temporary dictionary for rapid retrieval when entering a salutation in the message. As another example, a number of the words in an existing electronic message may be stored in a temporary dictionary and made available to a user when replying to or forwarding the message since the existing message might include words that the user might reasonably be expected to type in the reply message or the forwarded message.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates generally to handheld electronic devices, and more particularly to a handheld electronic device having a reduced keypad and facilitating message text entry. Background technique [0002] Various types of handheld electronic devices are known. Examples of such handheld electronic devices include, for example, personal digital assistants (PDAs), handheld computers, two-way pagers, cellular telephones, and the like. Many handheld electronic devices also have wireless or other communication capabilities, although other handheld electronic devices are stand-alone devices that operate independently without communicating with other devices. It is generally desirable for such handheld electronic devices to be portable and thus relatively compact, with keys and other structures often performing multiple functions under certain circumstances, or having multiple schemes or features to which they can be assigned. As technology evolv...

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Patent Type & Authority Patents(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F3/023G06F17/30
CPCG06F3/0237
Inventor 乔治·V·巴比
Owner RES IN MOTION LTD