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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2019
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Richard V. Tran, San Jose, CA (US);
Heidi Lagares-Greenblatt, Jefferson Hills, PA (US);
Kevin David Hite, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for modifying visual aspects of a keyboard in response to a user typing on the keyboard. The method includes one or more computer processors receiving a first character input to an input device. The method further includes determining a plurality of words that begin with the first received character. The method further includes ranking the determined plurality of words. The method further includes selecting a word from among the ranked plurality of words based on a first set of criteria. The method further includes determining a sequence of one or more characters after the received first character that correspond to the selected word. The method further includes modifying one or more respective characteristics of input elements of the input device that correspond to the sequence of characters of the selected word.