US 11,079,933 B2Granted

Method, device, and graphical user interface providing word recommendations for text input

AssigneeApple Inc.

InventorsKenneth Kocienda, Greg Christie, Bas Ording, Scott Forstall, Richard Williamson, Jerome René Bellegarda

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Abstract

A portable electronic device having a touch screen display performs a set of operations, including displaying a plurality of key icons, each having an adjustable size hit region, and receiving a sequence of individual touch points input by a user on the touch screen display. The operations performed by the device further include processing the received individual touch points by: forming a user-input directed graph for the sequence of individual touch points received so far, determining a character corresponding to a last received individual touch point in accordance with the adjustable hit regions of the displayed key icons, displaying a sequence of characters corresponding to the sequence of individual touch points, and updating sizes of the adjustable hit regions for a plurality of the key icons in accordance with the sequence of individual touch points input by the user.

Claims24

Dependent claims

A portable electronic device, comprising:

a touch-sensitive surface;
a display;
one or more processors;
and
memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
displaying, on the display, a plurality of key icons;
receiving, via the touch-sensitive surface, a first gesture;
displaying, on the display, a sequence of characters corresponding to the first gesture;
receiving, via the touch-sensitive surface, a second gesture corresponding to a deletion key icon;
deleting one or more of the displayed sequence of characters to produce a shortened sequence of characters;
receiving, via the touch-sensitive surface, a third gesture;
and
after receiving the third gesture:
displaying, on the display, a current sequence of characters including characters associated with the third gesture;
and
determining a suggested character string based on the shortened sequence of characters and on information derived from the deleted one or more of the displayed sequence of characters, wherein the suggested character string starts with the shortened sequence of characters and the suggested character string comprises at least one character not included in the plurality of key icons;
in accordance with a determination that a display suggested word setting is enabled:
in accordance with a determination that a respective probability for the suggested character string is greater than or equal to a probability for the current sequence of characters, displaying, on the display, a suggestion area with the suggested character string;
and
in accordance with a determination that the respective probability for the suggested character string is less than the probability for the current sequence of characters, displaying, on the display, the suggestion area without the suggested character string;
and
in accordance with a determination that the display suggested word setting is disabled, forgoing display of the suggestion area on the display.

19 more elements

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more programs configured to be executed by one or more processors of an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface, the one or more programs including instructions for:

displaying, on the display, a plurality of key icons;
receiving, via the touch-sensitive surface, a first gesture;
displaying, on the display, a sequence of characters corresponding to the first gesture;
receiving, via the touch-sensitive surface, a second gesture corresponding to a deletion key icon;
deleting one or more of the displayed sequence of characters to produce a shortened sequence of characters;
receiving, via the touch-sensitive surface, a third gesture;
and
after receiving the third gesture:
displaying, on the display, a current sequence of characters including characters associated with the third gesture;
and
determining a suggested character string based on the shortened sequence of characters and on information derived from the deleted one or more of the displayed sequence of characters, wherein the suggested character string starts with the shortened sequence of characters and the suggested character string comprises at least one character not included in the plurality of key icons;
in accordance with a determination that a display suggested word setting is enabled:
in accordance with a determination that a respective probability for the suggested character string is greater than or equal to a probability for the current sequence of characters, displaying, on the display, a suggestion area with the suggested character string;
and
in accordance with a determination that the respective probability for the suggested character string is less than the probability for the current sequence of characters, displaying, on the display, the suggestion area without the suggested character string;
and
in accordance with a determination that the display suggested word setting is disabled, forgoing display of the suggestion area on the display.

14 more elements

A computer-implemented method, comprising:

at an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface:
displaying, on the display, a plurality of key icons;
receiving, via the touch-sensitive surface, a first gesture;
displaying, on the display, a sequence of characters corresponding to the first gesture;
receiving, via the touch-sensitive surface, a second gesture corresponding to a deletion key icon;
deleting one or more of the displayed sequence of characters to produce a shortened sequence of characters;
receiving, via the touch-sensitive surface, a third gesture;
and
after receiving the third gesture:
displaying, on the display, a current sequence of characters including characters associated with the third gesture;
and
determining a suggested character string based on the shortened sequence of characters and on information derived from the deleted one or more of the displayed sequence of characters, wherein the suggested character string starts with the shortened sequence of characters and the suggested character string comprises at least one character not included in the plurality of key icons;
in accordance with a determination that a display suggested word setting is enabled:
in accordance with a determination that a respective probability for the suggested character string is greater than or equal to a probability for the current sequence of characters, displaying, on the display, a suggestion area with the suggested character string;
and
in accordance with a determination that the respective probability for the suggested character string is less than the probability for the current sequence of characters, displaying, on the display, the suggestion area without the suggested character string;
and
in accordance with a determination that the display suggested word setting is disabled, forgoing display of the suggestion area on the display.

15 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/270,396Filed 7 Feb 2019 · continuation
Priority: 9 Jan 2008
Published: US 2019/0187892 A120 Jun 2019
Granted: 3 Aug 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

G06F 3/04886
Using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures: by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the…
G06F 3/0237
Character input methods: using prediction or retrieval techniques
G06F 3/04817
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…
G06F 3/0482
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…

Family

Application61/010,619Us provisional application · filed 9 Jan 2008
Application12/165,554Parent of this division · filed 30 Jun 2008
Application13/559,495Parent of this continuation · filed 26 Jul 2012
US 8,232,973 B2Parent of this division · filed 31 Jul 2012
Application14/800,378Parent of this continuation · filed 15 Jul 2015
US 9,086,802 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 21 Jul 2015
US 2019/0187892 A1Pre-grant publication · published 20 Jun 2019
Application13/559,495Parent of this division
US 2009/0174667 A1Published application
US 2012/0304100 A1Published application
US 2015/0317078 A1Published application
US 11,079,933 B2This patent

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