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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 19, 2009
Santosh Sharan, Acton, MA (US);
Mayank Agarwal, Ashland, MA (US);
Gordon Kessler, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Santosh Sharan, Acton, MA (US);
Mayank Agarwal, Ashland, MA (US);
Gordon Kessler, Mount Kisco, NY (US);
Nuance Communications, Inc., Burlington, MA (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for text entry are provided. The method provides a keypad comprising four directional keys and a center selection key, and assigns a set of letters to each of the four directional keys. A representation of the set of letters assigned to each of the four directional keys is provided. A sequence of selected directional keys is received in accordance with a user input, and in accordance with the selected directional keys, the set of letters assigned to each of the selected directional keys are selectively passed to a parsing algorithm. The parsing algorithm determines a user intended text input based upon the passed sequence of letter groupings.