Nuance Communications, Inc.

Tegic Communications, Inc.

Gordon Waddell

Brian Roundtree

Michael R Longe

David Jon Kay

Pim Van Meurs

Torsten Zeppenfeld

B Alex Robinson

Jon Witort

Tim Shelton

Claes-Fredrik Mannby

System and methods are provided for interpreting multiple contact events detected on a virtual keyboard of a computing device to determine an intended key press. The systems and methods utilize event data collected from each of the multiple contact events on a touchscreen in order to provide a general confidence level at which each contact event is deemed to be an intended key press. The confidence level is based on a probabilistic/algorithmic assessment of various criteria for each contact event detected. The criteria may be variable and rely on other events detected on the virtual keyboard even though each contact event is considered a physically independent action from one another. Once an intended key is determined, that key may be input to a word predication application also stored on the computing device. The word prediction application may use the intended key to predict at least one word for the user.

System and methods for determining keyboard input in the presence of multiple contact points

An application stored in a mobile device is provisioned using provisioning data received from remote data storage via a network. Provisioning data is obtained at no cost to a user of the mobile device. In some implementations, the provisioning data is received after the mobile device requests to establish a data channel with a data network. The data network is identified using a predetermined identifier that the network recognizes. If the network does not recognize the special identifier, no data channel is established. After a data channel is established, the mobile device requests provisioning data from the remote data storage. In some implementations, the mobile device receives a provisioning message through a predetermined port. The provisioning message either includes provisioning data or prompts the mobile device to obtain provisioning data.

No-cost mobile device messaging, such as for provisioning an application on a mobile device

There is disclosed an enhanced text entry system which determines one or more alternate textual interpretations of each sequence of inputs detected within a designated auto-correcting keyboard region. The actual contact locations for the keystrokes may occur outside the boundaries of the specific keyboard key regions associated with the actual characters of the word interpretations proposed or offered for selection, where the distance from each contact location to each corresponding intended character may in general increase with the expected frequency of the intended word in the language or in a particular context.

Keyboard system with automatic correction

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Gordon Waddell