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Date of Patent:
Jul. 13, 2021

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2016
Applicant:

Yahoo Holdings, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Hang Su, Washington, DC (US);

Hongbo Deng, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Kazuhiro Nakao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Shenhong Zhu, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Media Inc., New York, NY (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 40/274 (2020.01); G06F 16/338 (2019.01); G06F 16/31 (2019.01); G06F 16/33 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/338 (2019.01); G06F 16/313 (2019.01); G06F 16/3331 (2019.01); G06F 40/274 (2020.01);
Abstract

A method implemented on a computing device having at least one processor, storage, and a communication platform connected to a network for predicting a next word comprises generating a suggestion database including a plurality of suggestions; receiving an input from a user including a first word and at least one character of a second word; obtaining one or more indices associated with the at least one character from the suggestion database; retrieving one or more suggestions corresponding to the one or more indices from the suggestion database; and presenting the one or more suggestions to the user.


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