Systems and methods for determining character entry dynamics for text segmentation

A method, implemented by a computer, for determining user-specific word boundaries in a search string, the method comprising:

• receiving a string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters entered by a user, the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters comprising a plurality of words, and representing a search request;
• obtaining a time value associated with a time at which each non-space delimited alphanumeric character is entered by the user;
• determining one or more possible word boundaries between the plurality words in the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters based at least partially on a segmentation process;
• determining, by the computer and for each character in the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters, an amount of time taken between each time value associated with the time at which each non-space delimited alphanumeric character is entered by the user, wherein the amount of time is filtered;
• determining, by the computer and based on each amount of time between each time value and the one or more possible word boundaries, one or more actual time-specified word boundaries between the plurality of words in the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters;
• segmenting, by the computer, the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters into a time-specified set of words based on the one or more actual time-specified word boundaries between the plurality of words in the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters;
• outputting, to a search engine, the time-specified set of words;
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• receiving results of a search for the time-specified set of words from the search engine.

A method, implemented by a computer, for autocorrecting a string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters based on character entry timing by a user, the method comprising:

• receiving the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters entered by the user, the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters comprising a plurality of words, and representing entry of the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters on an input device;
• obtaining a time value associated with a time at which each non-space delimited alphanumeric character is entered by the user;
• determining one or more possible word boundaries between the plurality of words in the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters based at least partially on a segmentation process;
• determining, by the computer and for each character in the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters, an amount of time taken between each time value associated with the time at which each non-space delimited alphanumeric character is entered by the user, wherein the amount of time is filtered;
• determining, by the computer and based on each amount of time between each time value and the one or more possible word boundaries, one or more actual time-specified word boundaries between the plurality of words in the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters;
• segmenting, by the computer, the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters into a time-specified set of words based on the one or more actual time-specified word boundaries between the plurality of words in the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters;
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• outputting, to the input device, the time-specified set of words, whereby the input device automatically completes or automatically corrects a display of the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters entered by the user based on the time-specified set of words.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform a method comprising:

• receiving a string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters entered by a user, the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters comprising a plurality of words, and representing a potential domain name to be registered;
• obtaining a time value associated with a time at which each non-space delimited alphanumeric character is entered by the user;
• determining one or more possible word boundaries between the plurality of words in the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters based at least partially on a segmentation process;
• determining, by the processor and for each character in the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters, an amount of time taken between each time value associated with the time at which each non-space delimited alphanumeric character is entered by the user, wherein the amount of time is filtered;
• determining, by the processor and based on each amount of time between each time value and the one or more possible word boundaries, one or more actual time-specified word boundaries between the plurality of words in the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters;
• segmenting, by the processor, the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters into a time-specified set of words based on the one or more actual time-specified word boundaries between the plurality of words in the string of non-space delimited alphanumeric characters;
• determining, by the processor, one or more alternate words for a word from the time-specified set of words, wherein the one or more alternate words have a similar meaning to the word;
• creating, by the processor, one or more domain names using the one or more alternate words and the time-specified set of words;
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• displaying, to the user, a registration availability of the one or more domain names.