Handheld electronic device with disambiguation of compound word text input
First Claim
1. A method of disambiguating an input into a handheld electronic device having an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a memory having stored therein a plurality of language objects and a plurality of frequency objects, each of at least some of the language objects being associated with an associated frequency object, the input apparatus including a plurality of input members, each of at least some of the input members having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto, the method comprising:
- detecting an ambiguous input;
identifying a first language object corresponding with a first portion of the ambiguous input and having a length equal to the length of the first portion;
identifying a second language object corresponding with a second portion of the ambiguous input;
identifying an alternate first language object corresponding with an alternate first portion of the ambiguous input and having a length equal to the length of the alternate first portion;
identifying an alternate second language object corresponding with an alternate second portion of the ambiguous input; and
outputting a solution representative of the first language object and at least a portion of the second language object and an alternate solution representative of the alternate first language object and at least a portion of the alternate second language object.
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Abstract
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.
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17 Claims
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1. A method of disambiguating an input into a handheld electronic device having an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a memory having stored therein a plurality of language objects and a plurality of frequency objects, each of at least some of the language objects being associated with an associated frequency object, the input apparatus including a plurality of input members, each of at least some of the input members having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto, the method comprising:
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detecting an ambiguous input;
identifying a first language object corresponding with a first portion of the ambiguous input and having a length equal to the length of the first portion;
identifying a second language object corresponding with a second portion of the ambiguous input;
identifying an alternate first language object corresponding with an alternate first portion of the ambiguous input and having a length equal to the length of the alternate first portion;
identifying an alternate second language object corresponding with an alternate second portion of the ambiguous input; and
outputting a solution representative of the first language object and at least a portion of the second language object and an alternate solution representative of the alternate first language object and at least a portion of the alternate second language object. - View Dependent Claims (2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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3. (canceled)
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11. A handheld electronic device comprising:
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an input apparatus comprising a plurality of input members, each of at least some of the input members having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto;
an output apparatus;
a processor apparatus comprising a memory having stored therein a plurality of language objects and a plurality of frequency objects, each of at least some of the language objects being associated with an associated frequency object;
the processor apparatus being structured to detect an ambiguous input;
the processor apparatus being structured to identify a first language object corresponding with a first portion of the ambiguous input and having a length equal to the length of the first portion, and to identify a second language object corresponding with a second portion of the ambiguous input;
the processor apparatus being structured to identify an alternate first language object corresponding with an alternate first portion of the ambiguous input and having a length equal to the length of the alternate first portion, and to identify an alternate second language object corresponding with an alternate second portion of the ambiguous input; and
the processor apparatus being structured to output a solution representative of the first language object and at least a portion of the second language object and an alternate solution representative of the alternate first language object and at least a portion of the alternate second language object. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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12. (canceled)
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