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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 22, 2006
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2002
Victoria Lyustin, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert Michael Harman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ali Ebrahimi, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Victoria Lyustin, South San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert Michael Harman, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ali Ebrahimi, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A user interface () of a portable electronic device () includes a plurality of keys (). The user interface () includes a first group of keys representing vowel characters (), and a second group of keys representing consonant characters (). The second group of keys is separate from the first group of keys. For the first group of keys, a first key represents leading vowels (), a second key represents above and below vowels (), and a third key represents following vowels (). The second group of keys may be subdivided into phonetic consonant groups (FIGS.&) or alphabetic consonant groups (FIGS.&).