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| 20090027345 | Handheld Electronic Device and Associated Method Enabling the Output of Non-Alphabetic Characters in a Disambiguation Environment - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with text 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 includes a number of non-alphabetic characters that are assigned to keys and that can be accessed directly by the text disambiguation software without the need to active a non-alphabetic input routine or to additionally actuate and key or an key, for instance. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090063135 | Handheld Electronic Device and Method Employing Logical Proximity of Characters in Spell Checking - An improved handheld electronic device and associated method employing an improved spell checking routine enable proposed spelling corrections having a close logical proximity to an active input to be output at a position of preference for easy selection by the user. By way of example, a base character and the various accented forms thereof can be said to have a logical proximity to one another that is closer than their logical proximity to any character having a different base character, whether additionally having a diacritical element or not. | 03-05-2009 |
| 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 |
| 20090281787 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD ENABLING TRANSLITERATION OF A TEXT INPUT - An improved mobile electronic device enables the inputting of text in one alphabet, Traditional Chinese in the present example, by transliteration of inputs in another alphabet, BoPoMoFo in the present example. Since some of the inputs can be ambiguous, transliteration of an ambiguous input is delayed until a detection of a finalization event, thus avoiding the outputting of unnecessary transliteration results, and thus advantageously avoiding a distraction to the user. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090281788 | MOBILE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD ENABLING IDENTIFICATION OF PREVIOUSLY ENTERED DATA FOR TRANSLITERATION OF AN INPUT - An improved mobile electronic device and associated method enable the identification of previously-entered textual objects in one or more custom wordlists to identify possible transliterations of textual inputs. Such textual objects can be stored as data in a Pinyin custom wordlist if it is in the nature of Standard Mandarin characters or it can be stored in a BoPoMoFo custom wordlist if it is in the nature of Traditional Chinese characters, or it can be stored in both if it is in the nature of both Standard Mandarin characters and Traditional Chinese characters. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20090287475 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH DISAMBIGUATION OF COMPOUND WORD TEXT 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. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090299727 | 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 e-mail address book wherein names are recorded using both Latin and non-Latin characters. | 12-03-2009 |
| 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 |
| 20100223045 | System and method for multilanguage text input in a handheld electronic device - A system provides multilanguage text input in a handheld electronic device. The system includes one or more applications implemented in the handheld electronic device. The applications include a text input application requiring access to language data usable thereby. One or more language databases contain language data from a plurality of different languages usable by at least one of the applications including the text input application. An interface provides the applications with access to at least some of the different languages of the language data of the one or more language databases, in order that the applications including the text input application receive the different languages. | 09-02-2010 |
| 20110157021 | HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND ASSOCIATED METHOD ENABLING THE OUTPUT OF NON-ALPHABETIC CHARACTERS IN A DISAMBIGUATION ENVIRONMENT - A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with text 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 includes a number of non-alphabetic characters that are assigned to keys and that can be accessed directly by the text disambiguation software without the need to active a non-alphabetic input routine or to additionally actuate and key or an key, for instance. | 06-30-2011 |
