Gestures for auto-correct

• US 9,298,295 B2
• Filed: 07/25/2012
• Issued: 03/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/25/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Meta Platforms, Inc. (f/k/a Facebook, Inc.)
• Inventors: St. Clair, Luke
• Primary Examiner(s): Sternbane, Larry
• Assistant Examiner(s): Ritchie, Darlene M
• Application Number:
  US13/557,654
• Publication Number:
  US 20140028571A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,343 Days
• Field of Search: 345/168, 345/173, 345/156, 715/763, 715/863, 715/773, 715/257, 702/57, 704/275, 382/177, 341/22, 455/566, 707/767, 709/217
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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 3/0412 Digitisers structurally integrated in a display
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/274 Converting codes to words; Guess-ahead of partial word inputs

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to a user entering a string of one or more characters on a computing device, displaying the string on a display of the computing device and determining an auto-suggestion for the string; displaying all or a portion of the auto-suggestion on the display with the string; and, in response to a swipe touch gesture on the display, terminating the display of the auto-suggestion.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

in response to a user entering a string of one or more characters on a computing device, displaying the string on a display of the computing device and determining a plurality of auto-suggestion for the string;

displaying all or a portion of exactly one of the auto-suggestion on the display with the string, wherein the displayed auto-suggestion is located substantially adjacent to the string and wherein no other auto-suggestion of the plurality of auto-suggestions is displayed simultaneously;

in response to a swipe touch gesture on the display detected over a region defined by the displayed auto-suggestion, causing the displayed auto-suggestion to disappear;

determining a second one of the auto-suggestions for the string; and

displaying all or a portion of the second auto-suggestion on the display with the string.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the displayed auto-suggestion is an auto-correction or an auto-completion of the string.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising, in response to the user making a particular touch gesture on the display, implementing the second auto-suggestion for the sting.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the swipe touch gesture occurred substantially at the location adjacent to the string.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the swipe touch gesture occurred within an area of a touch-screen keyboard of the computing device.

6. One or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media embodying software that is operable when executed to:

in response to a user entering a string of one or more characters on a computing device, display the string on a display of the computing device and determine an a plurality of auto-suggestion for the string;

display all or a portion of exactly one of the auto-suggestion on the display with the string, wherein the displayed auto-suggestion is located substantially adjacent to the string and wherein no other auto-suggestion of the plurality of auto-suggestions is displayed simultaneously;

in response to a swipe touch gesture on the display detected over a region defined by the displayed auto-suggestion, cause the displayed auto-suggestion to disappear;

determining a second one of the auto-suggestions for the string; and

displaying all or a portion of the second auto-suggestion on the display with the string.

7. The media of claim 6, wherein the displayed auto-suggestion is an auto-correction or an auto-completion of the string.

8. The media of claim 6, wherein the software is further operable to, in response to the user making a particular touch gesture on the display, implement the second auto-suggestion for the sting.

9. The media of claim 6, wherein the swipe touch gesture occurred substantially at the location adjacent to the string.

10. The media of claim 6, wherein the swipe touch gesture occurred within an area of a touch-screen keyboard of the computing device.

11. A device comprising:

one or more processors; and

one or more computer-readable non-transitory storage media coupled to the processors and embodying software that is operable when executed by the processors to;

in response to a user entering a string of one or more characters on the device, display the string on a display of the device and determine an a plurality of auto-suggestions for the string;

display all or a portion of exactly one of the auto-suggestion on the display with the string, wherein the displayed auto-suggestion is located substantially adjacent to the string and wherein no other auto-suggestion of the plurality of auto-suggestions is displayed simultaneously;

in response to a swipe touch gesture on the display detected over a region defined by the displayed auto-suggestion, cause the displayed auto-suggestion to disappear;

determining a second one of the auto-suggestions for the string; and

displaying all or a portion of the second auto-suggestion on the display with the string.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the displayed auto-suggestion is an auto-correction or an auto-completion of the string.

13. The device of claim 11, wherein the software is further operable when executed by the processors to, in response to the user making a particular touch gesture on a the display, implement the other auto-suggestion for the sting.

14. The device of claim 11, wherein the swipe touch gesture occurred substantially at the location adjacent to the string.

15. The device of claim 11, wherein the swipe touch gesture occurred within an area of a touch-screen keyboard of the device.