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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 26, 2005
James Stephanick, Seattle, WA (US);
Ethan R. Bradford, Seattle, WA (US);
Pim Van Meurs, Kenmore, WA (US);
Richard Eyraud, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael R. Longé, Seattle, WA (US);
James Stephanick, Seattle, WA (US);
Ethan R. Bradford, Seattle, WA (US);
Pim Van Meurs, Kenmore, WA (US);
Richard Eyraud, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael R. Longé, Seattle, WA (US);
Tegic Communications, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for providing visual indication of character ambiguity and ensuing reduction of such ambiguity during text entry are described. An application text entry field is presented in a display screen, into which the user enters text by means of a reduced keyboard and a disambiguating system. The default or most likely word construct for the current key sequence may be presented at the insertion point of the text entry field. An indication of ambiguity is presented in the display screen to communicate to the user the possible ambiguous characters associated with each key. A word choice list field may also be present to display at least one word construct matching the current key sequence.