WORD INPUT METHOD

• US 20110131488A1
• Filed: 02/08/2011
• Published: 06/02/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Yun Kee Kang
• Original Assignee: Yun Kee Kang
• Inventors: KANG, Yun Kee
• Granted Patent: US 8,850,311 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/261
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/3322 using system suggestions G06F16/3325 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/90344 by using string matching techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/232 Orthographic correction, e.g. spell checking or vowelisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/70 methods for entering alphabetical characters, e.g. multi-tap or dictionary disambiguation methods for entering alphabetical characters per se G06F3/0237

Abstract

The present invention provides a word input method including the steps of selectively inputting one or more letters containing the first letter of the word to be inputted; extracting, as a first priority, a word having less letters than a predetermined number, and which coincides with the word to be inputted, in a sequence from the first letter, from words containing one or more letters, from a word storage unit; extracting, as a second priority, a word having less letters than the predetermined number, from words containing one or more letters, from the word storage unit; extracting, as a third priority, a word having more letters than the predetermined number, and which coincides with the word to be inputted, in a sequence from the first letter, from words containing one or more letters, from the word storage unit; extracting, as a fourth priority, a word having more letters than the predetermined number, from words containing one or more letters, from the word storage unit; dividing the words of the first priority to the fourth priority into the group having less letters than the predetermined number and the group having more letters than the predetermined number, and displaying the groups in the order of frequency on a word display window; and enabling the letters to be converted and completed into a selected word during inputting when the word is selected by a user from among the words displayed on the word display window.

Claims

1. A word input method, including the steps of:

selectively inputting one or more letters containing the first letter of the word to be inputted;

extracting, as a first priority, a word having less letters than a predetermined number, and which coincides with the word to be inputted, in a sequence from the first letter, from words containing one or more letters, from a word storage unit;

extracting, as a second priority, a word having less letters than the predetermined number, from words containing one or more letters, from the word storage unit;

extracting, as a third priority, a word having more letters than the predetermined number, and which coincides with the word to be inputted, in a sequence from the first letter, from words containing one or more letters, from the word storage unit;

extracting, as a fourth priority, a word having more letters than the predetermined number, from words containing one or more letters, from the word storage unit;

dividing the words of the first priority to the fourth priority into the group having less letters than the predetermined number and the group having more letters than the predetermined number, and displaying the groups in the order of frequency on a word display window; and

enabling the letters to be converted and completed into a selected word during inputting when the word is selected by a user from among the words displayed on the word display window.

2. The word input method according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined number of letters is 6.

3. A word input method, including the steps of:

extracting only words having more than a predetermined number of letters among the words containing four consonant letters from a word storage unit if the four consonant letters of the word to be entered are consecutively entered, to allow them to be displayed on a word display window; and

converting the unfinished four consonant letters into a selected word if the user selects the word to be entered among the words displayed on the word display window to allow the selected word to be entered.