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US 2006/0142997 A1Published application
Predictive text entry and data compression method for a mobile communication terminal
OwnerPer Jakobsen, Claus Nielsen +1inventors
InventorsPer Jakobsen, Claus Nielsen, Jyrki Okkonen
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Abstract
The invention relates to mobile terminals. According to the invention, the communication terminal includes a predictive editor application for entering text. The editor is used for editing text for message handling, phonebook editing and searching, etc. The terminal further includes compression and/or decompression software. The invention further relates to a method of compressing data in a mobile terminal on which a language dependent dictionary is stored.
Claims39
A mobile terminal comprising:
- a display;
- means for entering text;
- a predictive editor program for generating an output containing words completing a received string of ambiguous keystrokes or matching a received string of ambiguous keystrokes, said predictive editor program has a number of associated vocabularies forming a language dependent dictionary;
- characterized by comprising
- at least one further program that is capable of compressing text data by replacing words with references to said language dependent dictionary and/or capable of decompressing text data by retrieving words from said language dependent dictionary using references to said language dependent dictionary.
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A method of compressing data in a mobile terminal comprising the steps of:
- storing a language dependent dictionary on said mobile terminal;
- characterized by:
- compressing text data on said mobile terminal by replacing words in said text data with references to said language dependent dictionary and/or
- decompressing text data by retrieving words from said language dependent dictionary using references to said language dependent dictionary.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.