HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING OPTIMIZED SPELL CHECKING DURING TEXT ENTRY BY PROVIDING A SEQUENTIALLY ORDERED SERIES OF SPELL-CHECK ALGORITHMS
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Abstract
A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with a disambiguation routine 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 to perform a spell check routine during input of a text entry. The spell check routine subjects a text entry to a sequentially ordered series of spell-check algorithms and ceases subjecting the text entry to further spell-check algorithms upon identification of a predetermined quantity of spell-check language objects.
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48 Claims
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29. A method of enabling a spell-check operation on a handheld electronic device having stored for execution thereon a number of sequentially ordered spell-check algorithms, the method comprising:
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subjecting a text entry on the handheld electronic device to a spell-check algorithm to obtain a resultant expression, and seeking for inclusion in a list any language object that is consistent with the resultant expression; repeating on the text entry said subjecting and said seeking as to a next sequentially ordered spell-check algorithm if the quantity of language objects in the list has not reached a predetermined quantity; and subjecting the text entry to a first spell-check algorithm related to misspelling if the quantity of language objects in the list has not reached the predetermined quantity. - View Dependent Claims (30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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43. A handheld electronic device comprising an input apparatus, a processor apparatus, and an output apparatus, the input apparatus comprising a number of input members, at least two of the input members having a number of linguistic elements assigned thereto, at least two of the input members each having as the number of linguistic elements assigned thereto a plurality of linguistic elements, the processor apparatus comprising a processor and a memory having stored therein a plurality of objects comprising a plurality of language objects, at least two of the language objects each comprising a number of the linguistic elements, the memory having stored therein a number of routines which, when executed by the processor, cause the handheld electronic device to be adapted to perform operations comprising:
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subjecting a text entry to a spell-check algorithm to obtain a resultant expression, and seeking for inclusion in a list any language object that is consistent with the resultant expression; repeating on the text entry said subjecting and said seeking as to a next sequentially ordered spell-check algorithm when the quantity of language objects in the list has not reached a predetermined quantity; and subjecting the text entry to a first spell-check algorithm related to misspelling if the quantity of language objects in the list has not reached the predetermined quantity. - View Dependent Claims (44, 45, 46, 47)
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48. A handheld electronic device comprising:
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an input apparatus comprising a number of input members, at least two of the input members having a number of linguistic elements assigned thereto, at least two of the input members each having as the number of linguistic elements assigned thereto a plurality of linguistic elements; a processor apparatus comprising a processor and a memory having stored therein a plurality of objects comprising a plurality of language objects, at least two of the language objects each comprising a number of the linguistic elements, the memory configured to subject a text entry to a sequentially ordered series of spell-check algorithms until identification of a predetermined quantity of spell-check language objects; and an output apparatus to output the text entry and the predetermined quantity of spell-check language objects.
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