Arrangements of text type-ahead

• US 8,725,753 B2
• Filed: 09/05/2012
• Issued: 05/13/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 01/16/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Yen-Fu, Morgan, Fabian F., O'Connell, Brian M., Walker, Keith R., White Eagle, Sarah V.
• Primary Examiner(s): Kerzhner, Aleksandr
• Application Number:
  US13/603,884
• Publication Number:
  US 20120331414A1
• Time in Patent Office: 615 Days
• Field of Search: 707/758, 707/999.005
• US Class Current: 707/758
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs

Abstract

A method and system of text entry. An attribute of text entered by a user into an application is determined. The entered text is matched to a single portion of each attribute segment of one or more indexed segments of text, based upon a determined attribute of each attribute segment and the determined attribute of the entered text. Each attribute segment consists of the single portion and a remaining portion. After the entered text is matched to a single portion of each attribute segment, a selection of a single attribute segment selected from the one or more indexed segments of text by the user is received. The remaining portion of the selected single attribute segment is entered into the application.

Claims

1. A method of text entry, said method comprising:

selecting, by a processor of a computer system, segments of text from text documents including web pages, wherein each of the selected segments of text adheres to at least one of one or more patterns of text, wherein each of the one or more patterns specifies one or more of a range of numbers of words in phrases of text and a range of numbers of letters in words of text, and wherein at least one of the one or more patterns specifies a minimum number of words in phrases of text;

said processor indexing the selected segments of text to generate a plurality of indexed segments of text that includes one or more indexed segments of text;

said processor determining, an attribute of text entered by a user into an application;

said processor determining an attribute of each attribute segment of the one or more indexed selected segments of text, wherein said determining the attribute of each attribute segment comprises determining a geographical location of an origin of each attribute segment;

said processor matching the text entered by the user to a single portion of each attribute segment of the one or more indexed segments of text, each attribute segment consisting of the single portion and a remaining portion, wherein said matching the text entered by the user to the single portion of each attribute segment is based upon the determined geographical location of the origin of each attribute segment and a location of a computing device into which the text is entered by the user;

after said matching, said processor receiving a selection of a single attribute segment selected by the user from the one or more indexed segments of text; and

said processor entering into the application the remaining portion of the selected single attribute segment.

2. The method of claim 1, said method further comprising:

after said matching, said processor determining a priority ordering for the one or more segments of the indexed selected segments of text;

before said receiving the selection of the single segment, said processor displaying the one or more segments of the indexed selected segments of text to the user based upon the priority ordering.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said matching comprises matching a stem of a word of the entered text to a stem of a word of each attribute segment.

4. The method of claim 1,

wherein said matching comprises matching a first word and a second word of the entered text to a first word and a second word, respectively, of the single portion of each attribute segment;

wherein the single portion of each attribute segment contains an article between the first word and the second word of the portion of each attribute segment; and

wherein the entered text does not contain an article between the first word and the second word of the entered text.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the single portion of each attribute segment is a middle portion of each attribute segment.

6. The method of claim 1, said method further comprising:

said processor receiving from the user a specification of web sites and a specification of topics,

wherein said selecting the segments of text from text documents comprises selecting the segments of text from the web sites based upon the specification of the web sites and the specification of the topics.

7. A computer system comprising a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and a computer readable hardware storage device coupled to the processor, said storage device containing program code configured to be executed by the processor via the memory to implement a method of text entry, said method comprising:

said processor selecting segments of text from text documents including web pages, wherein each of the selected segments of text adheres to at least one of one or more patterns of text, wherein each of the one or more patterns specifies one or more of a range of numbers of words in phrases of text and a range of numbers of letters in words of text, and wherein at least one of the one or more patterns specifies a minimum number of words in phrases of text;

said processor indexing the selected segments of text to generate a plurality of indexed segments of text that includes one or more indexed segments of text;

said processor determining an attribute of text entered by a user into an application;

said processor determining an attribute of each attribute segment of the one or more indexed selected segments of text, wherein said determining the attribute of each attribute segment comprises determining a geographical location of an origin of each attribute segment;

said processor matching the text entered by the user to a single portion of each attribute segment of the one or more indexed segments of text, each attribute segment consisting of the single portion and a remaining portion, wherein said matching the text entered by the user to the single portion of each attribute segment is based upon the determined geographical location of the origin of each attribute segment and a location of a computing device into which the text is entered by the user;

after said matching, said processor receiving a selection of a single attribute segment selected by the user from the one or more indexed segments of text; and

said processor entering into the application the remaining portion of the selected single attribute segment.

8. The computer system of claim 7, said method further comprising:

after said matching, said processor determining a priority ordering for the one or more segments of the indexed selected segments of text;

before said receiving the selection of the single segment, said processor displaying the one or more segments of the indexed selected segments of text to the user based upon the priority ordering.

9. A computer program product, comprising a computer readable hardware storage device having computer readable program code stored therein, said program code configured to be executed by a processor of a computer system to implement a method of text entry, said method comprising:

said processor selecting segments of text from text documents including web pages, wherein each of the selected segments of text adheres to at least one of one or more patterns of text, wherein each of the one or more patterns specifies one or more of a range of numbers of words in phrases of text and a range of numbers of letters in words of text, and wherein at least one of the one or more patterns specifies a minimum number of words in phrases of text;

said processor indexing the selected segments of text to generate a plurality of indexed segments of text that includes one or more indexed segments of text;

said processor determining an attribute of text entered by a user into an application;

said processor determining an attribute of each attribute segment of the one or more indexed selected segments of text, wherein said determining the attribute of each attribute segment comprises determining a geographical location of an origin of each attribute segment;

said processor matching the text entered by the user to a single portion of each attribute segment of the one or more indexed segments of text, each attribute segment consisting of the single portion and a remaining portion, wherein said matching the text entered by the user to the single portion of each attribute segment is based upon the determined geographical location of the origin of each attribute segment and a location of a computing device into which the text is entered by the user;

after said matching, said processor receiving a selection of a single attribute segment selected by the user from the one or more indexed segments of text; and

said processor entering into the application the remaining portion of the selected single attribute segment.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, said method further comprising:

after said matching, said processor determining a priority ordering for the one or more segments of the indexed selected segments of text;

before said receiving the selection of the single segment, said processor displaying the one or more segments of the indexed selected segments of text to the user based upon the priority ordering.