Apple Inc.

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Karan Misra

Jerome Rene Bellegarda

Ryan S Dixon

Jannes G Dolfing

Karl Martin Groethe

Ueli Meier

Mei-Qun Xia

Patrick L Coffman

Chun Kin Minor Wong

Botao Zhu

Julian K Missig

Dylan Ross Edwards

Stephen J Rhee

Aram David Kudurshian

Julien F Freudiger

Guy Leslie Tribble

Deborah Eileen Goldsmith

Jessica Aranda

Jiabao Li

Ryan S Panchadsaram

Patrick W Demasco

Zeheng Chen

Hui Nee Chin

Todd Barthelme

Amy Wang

The present disclosure relates to user interfaces for receiving handwriting input, accessing predictive text candidates, and accessing keyboards.

Keyboard management user interfaces

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media related to a technique for providing handwriting input functionality on a user device. A handwriting recognition module is trained to have a repertoire comprising multiple non-overlapping scripts and capable of recognizing tens of thousands of characters using a single handwriting recognition model. The handwriting input module provides real-time, stroke-order and stroke-direction independent handwriting recognition for multi-character handwriting input. In particular, real-time, stroke-order and stroke-direction independent handwriting recognition is provided for multi-character, or sentence level Chinese handwriting recognition. User interfaces for providing the handwriting input functionality are also disclosed.

Managing real-time handwriting recognition

In some embodiments, an electronic device provides efficient user interfaces for searching for and/or entering emojis into a user interface.

Emoji user interfaces

Private and secure autocomplete suggestions are enabled based on a user contacts database, even when an application has not been granted access to the user contacts database. A keyboard process can receive and display suggestions based on input provided via the keyboard. The suggestions are generated based on a contacts database of a user. The suggestions are generated without exposing the contacts database to the application. Suggestions are then displayed to the user without exposing the suggestions to the application. Once a suggestion is selected by a user, the selected suggestion is provided to the application for insertion into a text field.

Contacts autocomplete keyboard

Some embodiments provide a touch-sensitive device that includes a handwriting area for receiving a handwritten input and a text area for displaying text characters that have been recognized for the handwritten input. As the device receives a subsequent handwritten input, it continuously removes portions of previously handwritten input from the handwriting area in order to allow the user to continue to provide handwritten input without having to clear the handwriting area. Some embodiments apply a fading mechanism for removing the handwritten input from the handwriting area. Different embodiments apply different factors for determining when and how to remove handwritten input from the handwriting area, including character based, word base, location based, and timer based thresholds.

Continuous handwriting UI

A method is disclosed for rendering messages in an email application on a client computer. A plurality of email messages is received from a server computer, including a first email message, a second email message and a third email message. The first email message is rendered on the client computer with a first conversation icon that identifies the first email message as being part of an email conversation thread. When the first conversation icon is selected on the first email message, a view is rendered showing one or more email messages in the conversation thread. When the second email message is selected, the second email message is rendered on the client computer with a second conversation icon. When the second conversation icon is selected on the second email message, the view showing the one or more email messages in the conversation thread is rendered.

Switching of emails in a conversation thread

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Karan Misra