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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2009
Applicant:
Donald Gene Archer, Euless, TX (US);
Inventor:
Donald Gene Archer, Euless, TX (US);
Assignee:
Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/21 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A portable device may attempt to predict words input by a user. In one implementation, the portable device may generate candidate words that correspond to predictions of the word being entered by the user. The candidate words being generated based on the characters input by the user of the portable device, characters in proximity to a last entered one of the input characters, and distance factors calculated based on distances between a touch-point on the a virtual keyboard and characters in proximity to the touch-point.