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Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2011

Filed:

Jan. 05, 2007
Applicants:

Greg Christie, San Jose, CA (US);

Bas Ording, San Francisco, CA (US);

Scott Forstall, Mountain View, CA (US);

Kenneth Kocienda, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Richard Williamson, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Jerome René Bellegarda, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Inventors:

Greg Christie, San Jose, CA (US);

Bas Ording, San Francisco, CA (US);

Scott Forstall, Mountain View, CA (US);

Kenneth Kocienda, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Richard Williamson, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Jerome René Bellegarda, Los Gatos, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/27 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Word recommendations are provided in response to text input. For a particular text input, possible word recommendations are identified based on the characters of the input and corresponding neighbor characters on a keyboard layout. The possible word recommendations are scored based on how closely they match the input word on a character-by-character basis, and a subset of the possible word recommendations are selected for presentation to the user.


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