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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2015
Filed:
May. 29, 2012
Jason Tyler Griffin, Kitchener, CA;
Jerome Pasquero, Kitchener, CA;
Donald Somerset Mckenzie, Waterloo, CA;
Alistair Robert Hamilton, Sammamish, CA;
Jason Tyler Griffin, Kitchener, CA;
Jerome Pasquero, Kitchener, CA;
Donald Somerset McKenzie, Waterloo, CA;
Alistair Robert Hamilton, Sammamish, CA;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A method including receiving an input of a character from a virtual keyboard rendered on a display, generating a set of characters that includes the character, and displaying the generated set of characters at a location associated with a key of the virtual keyboard of the display which corresponds to a subsequent candidate input character. An electronic device including a display having a virtual keyboard rendered thereupon and a processor, the processor being configured to perform the method. Also disclosed is a keyboard, including a plurality of keys, each key corresponding to one or more different characters of a plurality of characters, wherein in response to receiving an input of a character, the keyboard is configured to perform the method.