System and method for multilanguage text input in a handheld electronic device

• US 20100223045A1
• Filed: 03/17/2010
• Published: 09/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Elizarov, Michael, Fux, Vadim
• Granted Patent: US 8,401,838 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs

Abstract

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.

Claims

1. A system for multilanguage text input in a handheld electronic device, said system comprising:

at least one application implemented in said handheld electronic device, said at least one application comprising a text input application requiring access to language data usable thereby;

at least one language database containing language data from a plurality of different languages usable by at least one of said at least one application including said text input application; and

an interface providing said at least one application with access to at least some of said different languages of said language data of said at least one language database, in order that said at least one application including said text input application receives said different languages.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said at least one language database is a single language database containing blended information from two or more different languages.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said at least one application comprises said text input application and a spell check application.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said text input application employs a reduced keyboard.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein said language data comprises a mixture of a plurality of different languages using the same script or alphabet.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein said at least one language database is a plurality of language databases containing information from a plurality of different languages.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein a first one of said different language databases contains information from a first language of said different languages;

and wherein a second one of said different language databases contains information from a second language of said different languages.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein said first language is English and said second language is German.

9. The system of claim 6, wherein a first one of said different language databases contains information from a first language of said different languages;

and wherein a second one of said different language databases contains information from a second language and a third language of said different languages.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein said first language is English, said second language is French, and said third language is German.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

employing as said at least one application said text input application and a spell check application; and

including in said different languages of said language data a plurality of words usable by the text input application and the spell check application, and frequency data for the words usable only by the text input application.

11. A method of multilanguage text input in a handheld electronic device, said method comprising:

implementing at least one application in said handheld electronic device, said at least one application comprising a text input application requiring access to language data usable thereby;

employing at least one language database containing language data from a plurality of different languages usable by at least one of said at least one application including said text input application; and

interfacing said at least one application with at least some of said different languages of said language data of said at least one language database, in order that said at least one application including said text input application receives said different languages.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

employing as said at least one language database a single language database including blended information from two or more different languages.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

inputting text input including said at least some of said different languages of said language data; and

seamlessly providing predictive text without regard to the different languages of said text input.

15. The method of claim 14, further comprising:

inputting said text input from a reduced keyboard.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

including with said at least some of said different languages of said language data a mixture of a plurality of different languages using the same script or alphabet.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

employing as said at least one language database a plurality of different language databases including information from a plurality of different languages.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

including with a first one of said different language databases information from a first language of said different languages; and

including with a second one of said different language databases information from a second language of said different languages.

19. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

including with a first one of said different language databases information from a first language of said different languages; and

including with a second one of said different language databases information from a second language and a third language of said different languages.

20. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

employing as said at least one application said text input application and a spell check application.