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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 20, 2012
Taketoshi Yoshida, Shibuya, JP;
Jerome Turner, Kobe, JP;
Songming Ho, Yokohama, JP;
Kazuhide Oigo, Yamato, JP;
Taketoshi Yoshida, Shibuya, JP;
Jerome Turner, Kobe, JP;
Songming Ho, Yokohama, JP;
Kazuhide Oigo, Yamato, JP;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In a mobile device, the strings that make up a current thread in application are stored in a buffer. A thread is a series of communications sent between a user of the mobile device and one or more other users, such as a series of text messages or a series of emails. When the user enters text to continue the current thread, characters of the entered text are compared against the strings stored in the buffer, and strings that have the entered text as a prefix are selected and displayed to the user as string predictions in a soft input panel. Alternatively, the strings in the buffer may be used to increase the probabilities of matching strings in a dictionary or model that is used to select string predictions.