LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20140101596A1
• Filed: 12/17/2013
• Published: 04/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/03/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Over The Sun, LLC
• Original Assignee: Over The Sun, LLC
• Inventors: Staats, Kai, Geerdes, Bruce, Burcaw, Daniel, Giachetti, Lindsay, Reubenstein, Ben, Crest, Matthew
• Application Number:
  US14/109,128
• Publication Number:
  US 20140101596A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/773
• 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: G09B 19/06 Foreign languages with audible presentation of material to be studied G09B5/04

Abstract

A device disclosed herein comprises a touch screen interface configured to display a plurality of different keyboard configurations, each of the keyboard configurations representing a plurality of keys, receive an input from a user to select one of a plurality of keyboard selection inputs, and in response to the selection of the one of a plurality of keyboard selection inputs, displaying a selected keyboard configuration from the plurality of different keyboard configurations, wherein each of the plurality of keys related to the selected keyboard configuration represents a word.

Claims

1. A keyboard system comprising:

a touch screen interface;

one or more computer readable storage media configured to store;

a database comprising a plurality of different keyboard configurations, each of the keyboard configurations representing a plurality of keys to be displayed on the touch screen interface; and

one or more computer executable instructions for performing a computer process, the computer process comprising displaying one or more of the plurality of keys on the touch screen interface.

2. The keyboard system of claim 1, wherein the one or more of the plurality of keys represents a word of more than one character.

3. The keyboard system of claim 2, wherein the computer process comprising:

receiving an input from a user to move one of the plurality of keys from a first of the plurality of different keyboard configuration to a second of the plurality of keyboard configuration; and

changing the first and the second keyboard configurations in the database.

4. The keyboard system of claim 2, wherein each of the plurality of keyboard configurations allows the user to use the each of the plurality of keys without requiring any scrolling.

5. The keyboard system of claim 2, wherein the computer process further comprising:

receiving an input indicating selection of a first of the plurality of different keyboard configurations; and

displaying plurality of keys represented by the first keyboard configuration.

6. The keyboard system of claim 5, wherein the computer process further comprising:

receiving an input indicating selection of one of the plurality of keys represented by the first keyboard configuration; and

displaying a first word represented by the one of the plurality of keys of the second configuration in an outgoing message field.

7. The keyboard system of claim 6, wherein the computer process further comprising:

receiving another input indicating selection of a second of the plurality of different keyboard configurations;

displaying plurality of keys represented by the second keyboard configuration;

receiving an input indicating selection of one of the plurality of keys represented by the second keyboard configuration; and

displaying a second word represented by the one of the plurality of keys of the second configuration in the outgoing message field together with the first word.

8. The keyboard system of claim 1, wherein the database comprises eight different keyboard configurations.

9. The keyboard system of claim 1, wherein one or more of the plurality of keys represents a phrase comprising more than one word.

10. The keyboard system of claim 1, wherein the keys represented by the one or more of the plurality of keyboard configurations is categorized in a predetermined manner.

11. The keyboard system of claim 10, wherein a user defines a plurality of categories used to categorize the one or more of the plurality of keyboard configurations.

12. The keyboard system of claim 10, wherein each of the keys represented by one of the plurality of keyboard configurations represents a phrase comprising more than one word.

13. The keyboard system of claim 2, wherein the computer process further comprising:

receiving a search query for a search word; and

in response to the search query, presenting one of the plurality of keyboard including a key representing the search word.

14. A method, comprising:

receiving user input on a touch screen interface; and

presenting one of a plurality of keyboards via the touch screen interface in response to the user input.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein each of the one of more of the plurality of keyboards includes a plurality of keys and each of the plurality of keys represents a word.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein each of the plurality of keys and represents a word of more than one character.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving an input from a user to move one of the plurality of keys from a first of the plurality of different keyboards to a second of the plurality of keyboards; and

changing a first configuration related to the first keyboard and a second keyboard configuration related to the second keyboard in a database comprising a plurality of different keyboard configurations.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving an input indicating selection of one of the plurality of keys represented by the first keyboard configuration; and

displaying a first word represented by the one of the plurality of keys of the second configuration in an outgoing message field.

19. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

receiving a search query for a search word; and

in response to the search query, presenting one of the plurality of keyboard including a key representing the search word.

20. A device comprising:

a touch screen interface configured to display a plurality of different keyboard configurations, each of the keyboard configurations representing a plurality of keys, receive an input from a user to select one of a plurality of keyboard selection inputs, and in response to the selection of the one of a plurality of keyboard selection inputs, displaying a selected keyboard configuration from the plurality of different keyboard configurations, wherein each of the plurality of keys related to the selected keyboard configuration represents a word.