PRESETTING INPUT MODE FOR INPUT BOX

• US 20130024802A1
• Filed: 07/11/2012
• Published: 01/24/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 07/21/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Zeng, Jun
• Application Number:
  US13/546,720
• Publication Number:
  US 20130024802A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/780
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/454 Multi-language systems; Localisation; Internationalisation

Abstract

The present invention discloses a method and system for presetting an input mode for an input box, wherein the method comprises: in response to an input box being to receive an input, making a query for an input mode corresponding to the input box recorded in an input method; and presetting the input mode found through the query as the input mode for the input box. With the disclosed method and system, when a user needs to input information in an input box in accessing an application or the internet, the input method can automatically preset a desired input mode for the input box according to the use history of the input box, thus improving the user'"'"'s experience.

Claims

1. A method for presetting an input mode for an input box, comprising:

in response to an input box being to receive an input, making a query for an input mode corresponding to the input box recorded in an input method; and

presetting the input mode found through the query as the input mode for the input box.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the input mode corresponding to the input box is obtained from the corresponding relationship between the input box and the input mode used by a user for the input box recorded in the input method.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the step of making a query for the input mode corresponding to the input box recorded in the input method comprises:

determining whether the input is a first input for the input box;

in response to the input being the first input for the input box, selecting the input mode used by the user for the input box as the input mode corresponding to the input box;

recording the corresponding relationship between the input box and the input mode used by the user for the input box in the input method.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the step of making a query for the input mode corresponding to the input box recorded in the input method further comprises:

in response to the input not being the first input for the input box and one corresponding relationship between the input box and the input mode used by the user for the input box being recorded in the input method, selecting the input mode in that corresponding relationship as the input mode corresponding to the input box.

5. The method according to claim 3, wherein the step of making a query for the input mode corresponding to the input box recorded in the input method further comprises:

in response to the input not being the first input for the input box and a plurality of corresponding relationship between the input box and the input mode used by the user for the input box being recorded in the input method, selecting the input mode used for most times as the input mode corresponding to the input box.

6. The method according to claim 3, wherein the step of making a query for the input mode corresponding to the input box recorded in the input method further comprises:

in response to the input not being the first input for the input box and a plurality of corresponding relationship between the input box and the input mode used by the user for the input box being recorded in the input method, selecting the input mode used most recently as the input mode corresponding to the input box.

7. The method according to claim 5, wherein the step of making a query for the input mode corresponding to the input box recorded in the input method further comprises:

in response to the user making an input in the input box by using another input mode, recording the corresponding relationship between the input box and said another input mode in the recording method.

8. The method according to claim 2, wherein the corresponding relationship between the input box and the input mode used by the user for the input box is expressed in the form of a pair of unique key for input box and input mode.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the input box is an application input box, and the unique key for input box includes attributes and attribute values of each level of parental window of the input box and attributes and attribute values of the input box.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the input box is a webpage input box, and the unique key for input box includes a location of the webpage and attributes and attribute values of the input box.

11. A system for presetting an input mode for an input box, comprising:

a query module configured to make a query for an input mode corresponding to the input box recorded in an input method; and

a presetting module configured to preset the input mode found through the query as the input mode for the input box.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein the input mode corresponding to the input box found through the query by the query module is obtained from corresponding relationship between the input box and the input mode used by a user for the input box recorded in the input method.

13. The system according to claim 12, wherein the query module comprises:

a determining module configured to determine whether the input is a first input for the input box;

a first-processing module configured to, in response to the input being the first input for the input box, select the input mode used by the user for the input box as the input mode corresponding to the input box, and record the corresponding relationship between the input box and the input mode used by the user for the input box in the input method.

14. The system according to claim 13, wherein the query module further comprises:

a non-first-processing module configured to, in response to the input not being the first input for the input box and one corresponding relationship between the input box and the input mode used by the user for the input box being recorded in the input method, select the input mode in that corresponding relationship as the input mode corresponding to the input box.

15. The system according to claim 13, wherein the non-first-processing module is further configured to, in response to the input not being the first input for the input box and a plurality of corresponding relationship between the input box and the input mode used by the user for the input box being recorded in the input method, select the input mode used for most times as the input mode corresponding to the input box.

16. The system according to claim 13, wherein the non-first-processing module is further configured to, in response to the input not being the first input for the input box and a plurality of corresponding relationship between the input box and the input mode used by the user for the input box being recorded in the input method, select the input mode used most recently as the input mode corresponding to the input box.

17. The system according to claim 15, wherein the non-first-processing module is further configured to, in response to the user making an input in the input box by using another input mode, record the corresponding relationship between the input box and said another input mode in the recording method.

18. The system according to claim 12, wherein the corresponding relationship between the input box and the input mode used by the user for the input box is expressed in the form of a pair of unique key for input box and input mode.

19. The system according to claim 18, wherein the input box is an application input box, and the unique key for input box includes attributes and attribute values of each level of parental window of the input box and attributes and attribute values of the input box.

20. The system according to claim 18, wherein the input box is a webpage input box, and the unique key for input box includes a location of the webpage and attributes and attribute values of the input box.