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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2001
Filed:
Apr. 14, 1999
Steven Nowlan, San Jose, CA (US);
Ali Ebrahimi, Belmont, CA (US);
David Richard Whaley, Redwood City, CA (US);
Pierre Demartines, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sreeram Balakrishnan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sheridan Rawlins, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A data entry apparatus (,) receives a first character key from a keypad (,). A set of characters associated with the first character key is displayed. A second character key from the keypad (,) is received, wherein a second set of characters is associated with the second character key. A character from the first set of characters is combined with a character from the second set of characters. A set of alternative n-grams is displayed, derived from the step of combining, in descending order based on a probability of frequency of use in a given language. When an alternative n-gram is detected as being actively highlighted, the n-gram is locked to create a locked n-gram and characters associated with subsequent character keys vary in their combinations with respect to the locked n-gram.