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Intent-aware keyboard

  • US 9,576,074 B2
  • Filed: 06/20/2013
  • Issued: 02/21/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. One or more computer storage media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, that when executed, cause a computing device to perform a method for providing a contextual service in association with an input mechanism, the method comprising:

  • receiving over a computer network, at a contextual-service provider, an input fragment from an input mechanism (“

    IME”

    ) program running on a computing device, the input fragment comprising letters that do not presently constitute a full word;

    receiving, at the contextual-service provider, information from the IME program that describes a characteristic of an active application into which the IME program input the input fragment;

    determining, at the contextual-service provider, that the characteristic and the input fragment satisfy a contextual service'"'"'s trigger criteria that causes a contextual service to be generated;

    generating content used to provide the contextual service; and

    communicating the content to the IME program.

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