Method, Device, and Graphical User Interface Providing Word Recommendations for Text Input

• US 20120304100A1
• Filed: 07/26/2012
• Published: 11/29/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 01/09/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Bas Ording, Greg Christie, Jerome René Bellegarda, Kenneth Kocienda, Richard Arthur Williamson, Scott Forstall
• Original Assignee: Bas Ording, Greg Christie, Jerome René Bellegarda, Kenneth Kocienda, Richard Arthur Williamson, Scott Forstall
• Inventors: Kocienda, Kenneth, Christie, Greg, Ording, Bas, Forstall, Scott, Williamson, Richard, Bellegarda, Jerome René
• Granted Patent: US 9,086,802 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/773
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0237 using prediction or retrieval techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04895 Guidance during keyboard input operation, e.g. prompting

Abstract

A portable electronic device having a touch screen display performs a set of operations, including displaying a plurality of key icons, each having an adjustable size hit region, and receiving a sequence of individual touch points input by a user on the touch screen display. The operations performed by the device further include processing the received individual touch points by: forming a user-input directed graph for the sequence of individual touch points received so far, determining a character corresponding to a last received individual touch point in accordance with the adjustable hit regions of the displayed key icons, displaying a sequence of characters corresponding to the sequence of individual touch points, and updating sizes of the adjustable hit regions for a plurality of the key icons in accordance with the sequence of individual touch points input by the user.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

at a portable electronic device having a touch screen display;

displaying a current character string being input by a user with a soft keyboard in a first area of the touch screen display;

displaying a suggested replacement character string for the current character string in a second area of the touch screen display, wherein the second area includes a suggestion rejection icon adjacent to the suggested replacement character string;

replacing the current character string in the first area with the suggested replacement character string in response to detecting user activation of a key on the soft keyboard associated with a delimiter; and

keeping the current character string in the first area and ceasing to display the suggested replacement character string and the suggestion rejection icon in response to detecting a finger gesture on the suggested replacement character string displayed in the second area.

2. A computer readable storage medium having stored therein instructions, which when executed by a portable electronic device with a touch screen display, cause the device to:

display a current character string being input by a user with a soft keyboard in a first area of the touch screen display;

display a suggested replacement character string for the current character string in a second area of the touch screen display, wherein the second area includes a suggestion rejection icon adjacent to the suggested replacement character string;

replace the current character string in the first area with the suggested replacement character string in response to detecting user activation of a key on the soft keyboard associated with a delimiter; and

keep the current character string in the first area and cease to display the suggested replacement character string and the suggestion rejection icon in response to detecting a finger gesture on the suggested replacement character string displayed in the second area.

3. A portable electronic device, comprising:

a touch screen display;

one or more processors;

memory; and

one or more programs stored in the memory, wherein the one or more programs are configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for;

displaying a current character string being input by a user with a soft keyboard in a first area of the touch screen display;

displaying a suggested replacement character string for the current character string in a second area of the touch screen display, wherein the second area includes a suggestion rejection icon adjacent to the suggested replacement character string;

replacing the current character string in the first area with the suggested replacement character string in response to detecting user activation of a key on the soft keyboard associated with a delimiter; and

keeping the current character string in the first area and ceasing to display the suggested replacement character string and the suggestion rejection icon in response to detecting a finger gesture on the suggested replacement character string displayed in the second area.

4. A graphical user interface on a portable electronic device with a touch screen display, comprising:

a first area of the touch screen display;

a current character string being input by a user with a soft keyboard in the first area of the touch screen display; and

a second area of the touch screen display that includes a suggested replacement character string and a suggestion rejection icon adjacent to the suggested replacement character string;

wherein;

in response to detecting user activation of a key on the soft keyboard associated with a delimiter, the current character string in the first area is replaced with the suggested replacement character string; and

in response to detecting a finger gesture on the suggested replacement character string displayed in the second area, the current character string is kept in the first area and display of the suggested replacement character string and the suggestion rejection icon are ceased.