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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 05, 2012
Christopher P. Willmore, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nicholas K. Jong, Campbell, CA (US);
Stephen W. Swales, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Christopher P. Willmore, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Nicholas K. Jong, Campbell, CA (US);
Stephen W. Swales, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and systems of multi-word automatic correction ('autocorrect') are provided. Autocorrect generally can select a corrected word based on a typed word and a dictionary of correctly-spelled words. Multi-word autocorrect can add to this functionality by revisiting the selection of an initial corrected word if a subsequently-typed word indicates that it would be more appropriate to instead select an additional corrected word. In some cases, an autocorrect system can make a multi-word correction based on a multi-word phrase in a dictionary, such as replacing 'new york' with “New York” as described above. In other cases, an autocorrect system can make a multi-word correction to correct a mistakenly-typed delimiter character. In other cases, an autocorrect system can use grammar rules to obtain additional context information with each subsequently-typed word and make multi-word corrections on that basis.