Nuance Communications, Inc.

Tegic Communications, Inc.

Gaurav Tandon

David Jon Kay

Michael R Longe

Pim Van Meurs

Ethan Robert Bradford

Erland Unruh

An operating sequence for a handheld computing device manages the device to automatically detect cues describing the device's environmental and user actions performed with the device, learn which cues and cue combinations are relevant to predict user actions, and then in response to occurrence of the relevant cues, predictively implementing the appropriate user action or configuring the device in anticipation of user action.

Contextual prediction of user words and user actions

An adaptation of standard edit distance spell-check algorithms leverages probability-based regional auto-correction algorithms and data structures for ambiguous keypads and other predictive text input systems to provide enhanced typing correction and spell-check features. Strategies for optimization and for ordering results of different types are also provided.

Spell-check for a keyboard system with automatic correction

Methods, apparatuses, and articles for registering votes to predict an attribute value for a received instance are described herein. In one embodiment, the registering is performed in a weighted manner based at least on a weight and predicted target values associated with at least one of one or more rules whose antecedent has been met. The meeting of the antecedent is determined based at least on one or more attributes values of one or more other attributes of the received instance. Further, determining whether the predicted target value for which votes are registered correctly predicted the attribute value of the received instance is performed. The associated weight of the rule is adjusted accordingly, for instance, by incrementing the weight if the predicted target value correctly predicted the attribute value of the received instance, and by decrementing the weight if the predicted target value incorrectly predicted the attribute value of the received instance.

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Gaurav Tandon