HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR DISAMBIGUATION OF TEXT INPUT AND PROVIDING SPELLING SUBSTITUTION
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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 text input. The device is structured to identify and output representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a text input. The device is additionally structured to identify and output representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that correspond with a known spelling substitution particular to a language active on the handheld electronic device.
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26 Claims
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11. A method of enabling an input into a handheld electronic device of a type including an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a memory, the method comprising:
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detecting an ambiguous input; generating an original prefix object corresponding to the ambiguous input; identifying a spelling substitution for the original prefix object; and outputting the original prefix object in place of the identified spelling substitution. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A handheld electronic device comprising:
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a processor apparatus comprising a processor and a memory, the memory having stored therein a plurality of objects; an input apparatus comprising a plurality of keys actuatable to provide input to the processor apparatus, each of at least two of the keys having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto; and an output apparatus structured to receive output signals from the processor and to provide output, wherein responsive to an ambiguous input, the processor apparatus being structured to generate an original prefix object corresponding to the ambiguous input, the processor apparatus being structured to identify a spelling substitution for the original prefix object, and the output apparatus being structured to output the original prefix object in place of the identified spelling substitution. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A method of enabling an input into a handheld electronic device of a type including an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a memory having stored therein a plurality of objects including a plurality of language objects and a plurality of frequency objects, at least some of the language objects each .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 comprising a number of actuations of a number of the input members, at least one of the number of the input members having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto; generating a number of prefix objects each having a number of the linguistic elements of the number of input members; generating a prefix object having a spelling substitution; and outputting the at least one of the prefix objects in place of the prefix object having a spelling substitution. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26)
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Specification