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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 14, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 31, 2017
Applicant:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jenny Yuen, Cambridge, MA (US);

Luke St. Clair, Corte Madera, CA (US);

Assignee:

Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/27 (2006.01); G06F 16/332 (2019.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/3323 (2019.01); G06F 3/04842 (2013.01); G06F 16/334 (2019.01); G06F 17/276 (2013.01); G06F 17/30643 (2013.01); G06F 17/30675 (2013.01); G06F 17/273 (2013.01); G06F 17/274 (2013.01); G06F 17/2735 (2013.01);
Abstract

In one embodiment, the method includes receiving one or more characters inputted by a user; calculating a degree of difficulty of a character string, wherein the degree of difficulty is based on the characters inputted by the user, and wherein the characters inputted by the user comprise a portion of the character string; and if the degree of difficulty is equal to or exceeds a pre-determined threshold, then presenting, on a display of the computing device, an auto-suggestion for completing the character string; else, not presenting, on the display of the computing device, the auto-suggestion for completing the character string.


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