DATA ENTRY SYSTEM

• US 20100302163A1
• Filed: 09/01/2008
• Published: 12/02/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Keyless Systems Limited
• Original Assignee: Keyless Systems Limited
• Inventors: Ghassabian, Benjamin Firooz
• Application Number:
  US12/675,956
• Publication Number:
  US 20100302163A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques

Abstract

A computerized device comprising a first input interface adapted to identify a plurality of different first user input signals; a second input interface adapted to identify a plurality of second user input signals, and a processor configured to ambiguously correspond to each of at least one of the first input signals with the first plurality of symbols, and to ambiguously correspond actuation of each of at least one of the second input signals with a second plurality of symbols. The processor associates each of the second plurality of symbols with one of the first input signals in a manner that the second plurality of symbols corresponds to a plurality of first input signals.

Claims

1-40. -40. (canceled)

41. A computerized device comprising:

a first input interface adapted to identify a plurality of different first user input signals;

a second input interface adapted to identify a plurality of second user input signals, and

a processor configured to ambiguously correspond each of at least one of the first input signals with a first plurality of symbols, and to ambiguously correspond actuation of each of at least one of the second input signals with a second plurality of symbols,

wherein the processor associates each of the second plurality of symbols with one of the first input signals, in a manner that the second plurality of symbols correspond to a plurality of the first input signals.

42. A device according to claim 41, wherein the processor corresponds each of the second input signals with a plurality of symbols.

43. A device according to claim 41, wherein the processor corresponds the first input signals with symbols, such that taken together the first input signals are associated with all the letters of an alphabet of a natural language.

44. A device according to claim 43, wherein the processor corresponds four different first input signals with all the letters of an alphabet of a natural language.

45. A device according to claim 44, wherein the first input interface comprises four keys for receiving the four different input signals.

46. A device according to claim 45, wherein the first input interface comprises additional keys for receiving a space character signal and a back space function signal.

47. A device according to claim 43, wherein the processor corresponds the second input signals with symbols, such that taken together the second input signals are associated with all the letters of the alphabet.

48. A device according to claim 47, wherein the processor corresponds eight second input signals with all the letters of the alphabet, wherein each of the eight input signals is provided through a different key of the second input interface.

49. A device according to claim 41, wherein the processor is configured to guess a word intended by a user based on a sequence of first input signals.

50. A device according to claim 49, wherein the processor is configured to update its word guess responsive to one or more of the second input signals.

51. A device according to claim 41, wherein the processor is configured to apply first input signals and second input signals received from a same cursor location, to different character positions in a current word, in at least some cases.

52. A device according to claim 41, wherein the processor is configured to associate a second input signal with a character not corresponding to any of the first input signals, when the second input signal is provided not during insertion of a word using the first input signal.

53. A device according to claim 41, wherein the first input interface is selected from the group comprising:

a physical keypad and a touch screen and a virtual keypad.

54. A device according to claim 41, wherein the first input interface comprises a plurality of first keys and the second input interface comprises a plurality of second keys and wherein the processor is configured to relate to at least one of the first keys as a state selection key of one or more the second keys, when the first key is pressed for longer than a predetermined duration.

55. A device according to claim 41, wherein the processor is configured to associate the first and second input signals with symbols in a manner such that each pair of first and second input signals has in common at most one symbol.

56. A device according to claim 41, wherein the first input interface supports no more than six different input signals, which are used for inserting symbols.,