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Systems and methods for using entered text to access and process contextual information

  • US 9,189,155 B2
  • Filed: 11/21/2011
  • Issued: 11/17/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/20/2010
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A keyboard system stored in memory of a mobile device, the keyboard system comprising:

  • a display component configured to present a virtual keyboard to a user via a touch-screen of the mobile device,wherein the virtual keyboard is configured to receive text input;

    a gesture component configured to receive a gesture via the virtual keyboard from a user of the mobile device,wherein the gesture includes movement across the virtual keyboard that could be interpreted as text entry;

    a context component configured to determine a context associated with the received gesture,wherein the context is separate from the content of the received gesture;

    an interpretive component configured to identify whether the received gesture input in the determined context is a command for the keyboard system or is text entry,wherein the keyboard system is distinct from other applications stored in memory of the mobile device;

    a text entry component configured to receive gesture input identified as text entry via the virtual keyboard and update text based on the received text entry; and

    a command component configured to receive gesture input identified as a command for the keyboard system and to command the keyboard system to perform a function based on the received gesture,wherein the commanded function is not the function of a key displayed on the virtual keyboard.

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