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Handheld electronic device and method for performing optimized spell checking during text entry by providing a sequentially ordered series of spell-check algorithms

  • US 9,128,922 B2
  • Filed: 01/29/2013
  • Issued: 09/08/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of enabling a spell-check operation on a handheld electronic device having stored for execution thereon a number of spell-check algorithms, the method comprising:

  • on the handheld electronic device, subjecting a text entry to a spell-check algorithm to obtain a resultant expression, and generating a list including any language object determined to be inconsistent with the resultant expression;

    subjecting the text entry to a first spell-check algorithm related to misspelling when a quantity of language objects in the list has not reached a predetermined quantity; and

    subsequent to said subjecting the text entry to the first spell-check algorithm related to misspelling, and when the quantity of language objects in the list has not reached the predetermined quantity, subjecting the text entry to a first spell-check algorithm related to a predetermined affixation rule.

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