ELECTRONIC DEVICE WITH TOUCH-SENSITIVE DISPLAY AND METHOD OF FACILITATING INPUT AT THE ELECTRONIC DEVICE

• US 20110041056A1
• Filed: 08/14/2009
• Published: 02/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 08/14/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: FUX, Vadim, GRIFFIN, Jason Tyler
• Application Number:
  US12/541,214
• Publication Number:
  US 20110041056A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/708
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

A method includes receiving a character in response to a touch on a touch-sensitive display, adding the character to a character string, identifying, from stored data, objects that at least partially match the character string, and determining a next character of at least one of the objects identified, yielding a set of next characters.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a character in response to a touch on a touch-sensitive display;

adding the character to a character string;

identifying, from stored data, objects that at least partially match the character string; and

determining a next character of at least one of the objects identified, yielding a set of next characters.

2. The method according to claim 1, comprising increasing an active area of at least one of the set of next characters on the touch-sensitive display

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein receiving a character comprises detecting the touch on the touch-sensitive display and determining the character based on a location of the touch.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein identifying objects comprises identifying language objects stored in memory on a portable electronic device.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein identifying objects comprises identifying contact data stored in memory on a portable electronic device.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein receiving a character comprises receiving a character from a virtual keyboard of a portable electronic device.

7. The method according to claim 1, wherein determining a next character comprises determining, for each of the objects, one of a next character for the object and an end of the object.

8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the end of the object comprises a space.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein increasing an active area comprises increasing, on the touch-sensitive display, an area associated with a touch for at least one of the set of next characters.

10. The method according to claim 1, comprising increasing an area of a displayed representation associated with at least one of the set of next characters.

11. The method according to claim 1, comprising decreasing, on the touch-sensitive display, an area associated with at least one character that is not in the set of next characters.

12. The method according to claim 1, comprising decreasing an area of a displayed representation associated with at least one character that is not in the set of next characters.

13. The method according to claim 1, comprising rendering the character in a field displayed on the touch-sensitive display.

14. A computer-readable medium having computer-readable code executable by at least one processor of the portable electronic device to perform the method of claim 1.

15. An electronic device comprising:

a touch-sensitive display;

a processor operably connected to the touch-sensitive display, wherein the processor executes a program to cause the electronic device to receive a character in response to a touch on the touch-sensitive display, add the character to a character string, identify, from stored data, objects that at least partially match the character string, determine a next character of at least one of the objects identified, and increase an active area on the touch-sensitive display for at least one next character.