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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 1999
Filed:
Jan. 20, 1998
Clifford A Kushler, Lynnwood, WA (US);
Jin Bong Kim, Seattle, WA (US);
Tegic Communication, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A reduced keyboard disambiguating system for the Korean language using word-level disambiguation to resolve ambiguities in keystrokes. A plurality of letters are assigned to each of a plurality of data keys, so that keystrokes on these keys are ambiguous. A user may enter a keystroke sequence wherein each keystroke corresponds to the entry of one letter of a word. Because individual keystrokes are ambiguous, the keystroke sequence can potentially match more than one word with the same number of letters. The keystroke sequence is processed by matching the input keystroke sequence to corresponding stored words or other interpretations. The 14 consonant jamos of the Korean alphabet are assigned to the data keys in their standard alphabetical sequence. The 10 vowel jamos are likewise assigned to the same set of data keys in their standard alphabetical sequence, such that a majority of the data keys are assigned both one or more consonant jamos and one or more vowel jamos. The result is a reduced keyboard that is easily understood and quickly learned by native speakers of Korean, and that is efficient for purposes of disambiguating textual interpretations of input sequences of ambiguous keystrokes.