20120229388 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PREVENTING INCORRECT INPUT IN PORTABLE TERMINAL - According to certain embodiments, a method and apparatus for preventing incorrect input in a portable terminal includes identifying an input character string and, among previously registered candidate words, searching among a plurality of candidate words recommended for the input character string, calculating a similarity between the input character string and each of the searched candidate words, and presenting one or more of the searched candidate words in order of descending similarity associated with the one or more searched candidate words. | 09-13-2012 |