PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME

• US 20130300665A1
• Filed: 05/11/2012
• Published: 11/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: PASQUERO, Jerome, WALKER, David Ryan, FYKE, Steven Henry
• Granted Patent: US 8,884,881 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/168
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0236 using selection techniques to select from displayed items
• 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 of character entry includes detecting a spacebar adjacent input from a keyboard, the spacebar adjacent input corresponding to a key adjacent to a spacebar; and determining whether to accept the spacebar adjacent input based on whether a preceding inputted string, the preceding inputted string comprising a string of inputted characters preceding the spacebar adjacent input, corresponds to a first stored object.

Claims

1. A method of character entry comprising:

detecting a spacebar adjacent input from a keyboard, the spacebar adjacent input corresponding to a key adjacent to a spacebar; and

determining whether to accept the spacebar adjacent input based on whether a preceding inputted string, the preceding inputted string comprising a string of inputted characters preceding the spacebar adjacent input, corresponds to a first stored object.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising accepting the spacebar adjacent input when the preceding inputted string does not correspond to the first stored object.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising accepting the spacebar adjacent input when:

the preceding inputted string corresponds to the first stored object, and

the preceding inputted string combined with the spacebar adjacent input corresponds to a substring of a second stored object.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising replacing the spacebar adjacent input with a space when:

the preceding inputted string corresponds to the first stored object, and

the preceding inputted string combined with the spacebar adjacent input does not correspond to a substring of the second stored object.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising:

detecting a further input; and

replacing the spacebar adjacent input with a space when both;

the preceding inputted string combined with the spacebar adjacent input comprise a substring of the second stored object, and

the preceding inputted string combined with the spacebar adjacent input and the further input do not comprise a substring of the second stored object.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the keyboard comprises a physical keyboard.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the key adjacent to the spacebar comprises a key having a side at least partially abutting a side of the spacebar.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the keyboard comprises a three-row keyboard.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the keyboard is a virtual keyboard.

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

11. An electronic device comprising:

a keyboard, the keyboard comprising a spacebar and a plurality of keys;

at least one processor coupled to the keyboard and configured to;

detect a spacebar adjacent input from the keyboard, the spacebar adjacent input corresponding to a key adjacent to the spacebar; and

determine whether to accept the spacebar adjacent input based on whether a preceding inputted string, the preceding inputted string comprising a string of inputted characters preceding the spacebar adjacent input, corresponds to a first stored object.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the processor is further configured to accept the spacebar adjacent input when the preceding inputted string does not correspond to the first stored object.

13. The electronic device of claim 12, wherein the processor is further configured to accept the spacebar adjacent input when:

the preceding inputted string corresponds to the first stored object, and

the preceding inputted string combined with the spacebar adjacent input corresponds to a substring of a second stored object.

14. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to replace the spacebar adjacent input with a space when:

the preceding inputted string corresponds to the first stored object, and

the preceding inputted string combined with the spacebar adjacent input does not correspond to a substring of the second stored object.

15. The electronic device of claim 13, wherein the processor is further configured to:

detect a further input; and

replace the spacebar adjacent input with a space when both;

the preceding inputted string combined with the spacebar adjacent input comprise a substring of the second stored object, and

the preceding inputted string combined with the spacebar adjacent input and the further input do not comprise a substring of the second stored object.

16. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the keyboard comprises a physical keyboard.

17. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the key adjacent to the spacebar comprises a key having a side at least partially abutting a side of the spacebar.

18. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein the keyboard comprises a three-row keyboard.

19. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein keyboard is a virtual keyboard.

20. The electronic device of claim 11, further comprising a non-transitory memory, the non-transitory memory storing a set of stored objects.