Gestures for Auto-Correct

• US 20160098098A1
• Filed: 12/09/2015
• Published: 04/07/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: St. Clair, Luke
• Granted Patent: US 9,710,070 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04895 Guidance during keyboard input operation, e.g. prompting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to a user entering a string of one or more characters on a computing device, determining a plurality of auto-suggestions for the string; displaying all or a portion of one of the auto-suggestions on the display with the string; and in response to a particular swipe gesture on the display, causing the displayed auto-suggestion to be accepted

Claims

1. A method comprising:

in response to a user entering a string of one or more characters on a computing device, displaying the string on a display of the computing device and determining a plurality of auto-suggestions for the string;

displaying all or a portion of exactly one of the auto-suggestions on the display with the string, wherein no other auto-suggestion of the plurality of the auto-suggestions is displayed simultaneously; and

in response to a particular swipe gesture on the display, causing the displayed auto-suggestion to be accepted.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the auto-suggestion is an auto-correction or an auto-completion of the string.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the particular swipe gesture is a V-shaped swipe gesture performed over the displayed auto-suggestion.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the displayed auto-suggestion is located substantially adjacent to the entered string.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to a different swipe gesture:

determining another auto-suggestion for the string; and

displaying all or a portion of the other auto-suggestion on the display with the string.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the different swipe gesture is a downward swipe gesture performed over the displayed auto-suggestion.

7. The method of claim 5, further comprising, in response to the user making the particular swipe gesture on the display, implementing the other auto-suggestion for the string.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the particular swipe gesture occurred substantially at or near a display location of all or a portion of the auto-suggestion.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the particular swipe gesture is determined to correspond to one of a plurality of gestures stored in a gesture library of the computing device, each of the plurality of gestures corresponding to a respective touch event.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the determination is made by a program running on the computing device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the program is an application in which the user has entered the string.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the particular swipe gesture occurred within an area of a touch-screen keyboard of the computing device.

13. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:

in response to a user entering a string of one or more characters on a computing device, display the string on a display of the computing device and determining a plurality of auto-suggestions for the string;

display all or a portion of exactly one of the auto-suggestions on the display with the string, wherein no other auto-suggestion of the plurality of the auto-suggestions is displayed simultaneously; and

in response to a particular swipe gesture on the display, cause the displayed auto-suggestion to be accepted.

14. The media of claim 13, wherein the particular swipe gesture is a V-shaped swipe gesture performed over the displayed auto-suggestion.

15. The media of claim 13, wherein the software is further operable to, in response to the swipe touch gesture:

determine another auto-suggestion for the string; and

display all or a portion of the other auto-suggestion on the display with the string.

16. The media of claim 15, wherein the software is further operable to, in response to the user making a particular touch gesture on the display, implement the other auto-suggestion for the string.

17. The media of claim 13, wherein the particular swipe gesture is determined to correspond to one of a plurality of gestures stored in a gesture library of the computing device, each of the plurality of gestures corresponding to a respective touch event.

18. The media of claim 17, wherein the determination is made by a program running on the computing device.

19. The media of claim 18, wherein the program is an application in which the user has entered the string.

20. A device comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media coupled to the processors and embodying software that is operable when executed by the processors to;

in response to a user entering a string of one or more characters on a computing device, display the string on a display of the computing device and determining a plurality of auto-suggestions for the string;

display all or a portion of exactly one of the auto-suggestions on the display with the string, wherein no other auto-suggestion of the plurality of the auto-suggestions is displayed simultaneously; and

in response to a particular swipe gesture on the display, cause the displayed auto-suggestion to be accepted.