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Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 2010

Filed:

Aug. 31, 2006
Applicants:

Ray Sun, Issaquah, WA (US);

Timothy M. Thairu, Kirkland, WA (US);

Kelly Gachet, Redmond, WA (US);

Juan Jose Mejia, Monroe, WA (US);

Timothy L. Bui, Bothell, WA (US);

Peter Deng, Mountain View, CA (US);

Aaron Filner, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Ray Sun, Issaquah, WA (US);

Timothy M. Thairu, Kirkland, WA (US);

Kelly Gachet, Redmond, WA (US);

Juan Jose Mejia, Monroe, WA (US);

Timothy L. Bui, Bothell, WA (US);

Peter Deng, Mountain View, CA (US);

Aaron Filner, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03K 17/94 (2006.01); H03M 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Keyboard entries by users are tracked and filtered to reduce ambiguity in translating the entries to characters and predicting text based on the entries in a multiple keyboard environment. Key tables such as an equivalence table mapping characters to a base character value, a digit mapping table mapping characters to a digit between 0 and 9 are used to determine possible matches in text prediction. A letter accumulator UI is employed along with a number accumulator UI to provide users feedback on tracked letters.


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