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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 15, 2014
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2013
Applicant:
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Inventors:
Ethan R. Bradford, Seattle, WA (US);
Keith C. Hullfish, Snohomish, WA (US);
David J. Kay, Seattle, WA (US);
Pim van Meurs, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael R. Longé, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/14 (2006.01); G06F 3/048 (2013.01); H04M 1/00 (2006.01); H03M 11/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for explicit filtering in ambiguous text entry. The invention provides embodiments including various explicit text entry methodologies, such as 2-key and long pressing. The invention also provides means for matching words in a database using build around methodology, stem locking methodology, word completion methodology, and n-gram searches.