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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 31, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 04, 2013
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Shumin Zhai, Los Altos, CA (US);
Kurt Edward Partridge, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Xiaojun Bi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Yu Ouyang, San Jose, CA (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to techniques for outputting a graphical keyboard comprising a group of keys, wherein each key in the group of keys is associated with a respective, different display region, receiving an indication of a gesture to select a sequence of keys that are each included in the group of keys of the graphical keyboard, determining that the selected sequence of keys corresponds to a character string that is identifiable by at least one format source, wherein the format source is associated with a syntax, determining, based at least in part on the syntax, that at least one separator character is associated with the character string, and in response to determining that the at least one separator character is associated with the character string, outputting the character string and the at least one separator character at a location proximal to the character string.