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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 30, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2012
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jenny Yuen, Cambridge, MA (US);
Luke St. Clair, Redmond, WA (US);
Facebook, Inc., Menlo Park, CA (US);
Abstract
A method may include providing for display a first set of touch-screen keys corresponding to a first set of symbols. The method may also include providing for display at least partially underneath the first set of touch-screen keys a second set of touch-screen keys corresponding to a second set of symbols. At least a portion of the second set of touch-screen keys are visible through the first set of keys. The method may also include detecting a touch gesture by the user over the first and second sets of keys intending to input a symbol. The method may also include determining a context of the input by the user. The method may also include selecting based at least in part on the context a symbol in the first set of symbols or a symbol in the second set of symbols as the symbol that the user intended to input.