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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2008
Yun-chiang Kung, Taipei, TW;
Sheng-yao Shih, Taipei, TW;
Chin-nan Lee, Taipei, TW;
Yu-li Huang, Taipei, TW;
Hsiang-fu Liu, Taipei, TW;
Yun-Chiang Kung, Taipei, TW;
Sheng-Yao Shih, Taipei, TW;
Chin-Nan Lee, Taipei, TW;
Yu-Li Huang, Taipei, TW;
Hsiang-Fu Liu, Taipei, TW;
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Architecture that enables a user to perform manual word-breaking by phrase input. Phrase input is where the user inserts a phrase-key (or separator) as a delimiter that indicates to an editor application such as an IME (input method editor) the composition of a specific phrase when entering characters (e.g., Asian). The word-breaking is controlled by the user. The conversion quality is improved as the user knows the desired input and ambiguous cases are reduced. A phrase can be specified while the user is composing the characters. By selecting a phrase-key separator, the user can specify the composing characters before the characters are presented as a phrase. Moreover, the architecture includes a phrase prioritization mechanism wherein each phrase can be treated as a single entity and assigned a character identifier (ID), which is related to the sequence of a candidate list.