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Handheld electronic device and method for performing spell checking during text entry and for integrating the output from such spell checking into the output from disambiguation

  • US 7,777,717 B2
  • Filed: 04/05/2006
  • Issued: 08/17/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/05/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of enabling input on a handheld electronic device having an input apparatus, a memory, and an output apparatus, the input apparatus comprising a number of input members, at least some of the input members each having a number of linguistic elements assigned thereto, at least some of the input members each having as the number of the linguistic elements assigned thereto a plurality of the linguistic elements, the memory having stored therein a number of language objects, at least some of the language objects each comprising a number of the linguistic elements, the output apparatus comprising a display, the method comprising:

  • detecting as an ambiguous input a plurality of input member actuations comprising at least a current input member actuation and a preceding input member actuation, the current input member actuation being an actuation of an input member having a number of the linguistic elements assigned thereto, the preceding input member actuation preceding the current input member actuation and being an actuation of an input member having a number of the linguistic elements assigned thereto;

    responsive to the preceding input member actuation;

    generating a number of prefix objects corresponding with an initial portion of the ambiguous input comprising the preceding input member actuation,for each of at least some of the prefix objects, identifying a language object that corresponds with the prefix object and outputting the prefix object at a first location on the display as a proposed textual interpretation of the ambiguous input, andoutputting one of the prefix objects at a second location on the display; and

    responsive to the current input member actuation, outputting a text output at the first location on the display as being a proposed textual interpretation of the ambiguous input and having an arrangement of the linguistic elements different than the arrangement of the linguistic elements of the ambiguous input.

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