Device independent text suggestion service for an application hosting platform

A method that provides user specific text suggestions across a set of hosted applications, comprising:

• initiating a session with an application hosting platform for a user using a remote client device, wherein the application hosting platform includes a plurality of applications;
• accessing a dictionary associated with the user, wherein the dictionary provides text suggestions in response to inputted keyboard data and wherein the dictionary is applicable for the user across the plurality of applications;
• virtually deploying a selected application from the plurality of applications to the user at the remote client device;
• receiving, at the application hosting platform, inputted keyboard data as keystrokes are entered by the identified user into displayed fields of the selected application on the remote client device;
• intercepting, at the application hosting platform, the inputted keyboard data;
• generating, based on the inputted keyboard data, text suggestions specific to the user using the dictionary associated with the user;
• and
• outputting text suggestions for the user of the selected application.

A computer program product stored on a non-transitory computer readable storage medium, which when executed by a computing system, provides user specific text suggestions across a set of hosted applications, wherein the computer program product comprises:

• program code for initiating a session with an application hosting platform for a user using a remote client device, wherein the application hosting platform includes a plurality of applications;
• program code for accessing a dictionary associated with the user, wherein the dictionary provides text suggestions in response to inputted keyboard data and wherein the dictionary is applicable for the user across each of the plurality of applications;
• program code for virtually deploying a selected application from the plurality of applications for the user at the remote client device;
• program code for receiving, at the application hosting platform, inputted keyboard data as keystrokes are entered by the identified user into displayed fields of the selected application on the remote client device;
• program code for intercepting, at the application hosting platform, inputted keyboard data;
• program code for generating, based on the inputted keyboard data, text suggestions specific to the user using the dictionary associated with the user;
• and
• program code for outputting text suggestions for the user of the selected application.