Provision of Text Messaging Services
AssigneeData Connection Limited
InventorChris Mairs
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Abstract
A method for providing text messaging services to subscribers in a telecommunications network is presented. Each of the subscribers has subscriber equipment that includes a telephone and television equipment. The method includes receiving first key stroke data corresponding to at least one text character associated with a text message, the first key stroke data having been input by the subscriber on a telephone, and providing first text prediction data, obtained from a lookup of the first key stroke data in a text prediction database, for display via the television equipment, the first text prediction data including predicted text for the text character in the text message being created.
Claims21
A method for providing text messaging services to subscribers in a telecommunications network, each of said subscribers having subscriber equipment comprising a telephone and a television equipment, said method comprising the steps of:
- receiving first key stroke data corresponding to at least one text character associated with a text message, said first key stroke data having been input by said subscriber on a telephone;
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- providing first text prediction data, obtained from lookup of said first key stroke data in a text prediction database, for display via said television equipment, said first text prediction data comprising predicted text for said at least one text character in said text message being created.
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