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Predictive data entry method for a keyboard

  • US 6,150,962 A
  • Filed: 06/14/1999
  • Issued: 11/21/2000
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/11/1995
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A predictive data entry method in a device having a keypad wherein said keypad includes a plurality of keys and each key in said plurality of keys represents a plurality of different characters, said predictive data entry method comprising:

  • generating a table index using at least one character in a memory buffer of said device in combination with information characterizing a key pressed by a user wherein said pressed key is one key in said plurality of keys; and

    retrieving at least one predictive character entry from a table of predictive character entries stored in a memory using said table index wherein said at least one predictive character entry represents a character in the plurality of characters represented by said pressed key.

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