Apparatus, computer readable medium and method for effectively using visual indicators in navigating polysemous symbols across a plurality of linked electronic screen overlays

An apparatus, comprising:

• an integrated input and display device configured to display an initial electronic screen overlay and configured to provide polysemous symbols for selection on an initial electronic screen overlay displayed on a display;
• a memory to store a plurality of the selectable polysemous symbols in association with a pointer identifying display of an electronic screen overlay which is different from the initial electronic screen overlay;
• and
• a processor to receive an indication of selection of one of the provided polysemous symbols, the integrated input and display device being further configured to
• display a second electronic screen overlay on the display, in response to the processor receiving the indication of selection of one of the provided polysemous symbols, the second electronic screen overlay being the electronic screen overlay associated with the selected polysemous symbol, wherein a plurality of polysemous symbols on sequentially linked electronic screen overlays include at least one symbol useable as a terminal symbol in polysemous symbol sequences to produce respective words with a same grammatical function or belonging to a same part of speech.

A method, comprising:

• providing polysemous symbols for selection on an initial electronic screen overlay displayed on a display, a plurality of the polysemous symbols with a same grammatical function or belonging to a same part of speech being displayed with a common background color;
• storing, in a memory, a plurality of the selectable polysemous symbols in association with a pointer identifying display of an electronic screen overlay which is different from the initial electronic screen overlay;
• and
• displaying a second electronic screen overlay on the display, in response to initial selection of one of the provided polysemous symbols, the second electronic screen overlay being the electronic screen overlay associated with the selected polysemous symbol, wherein at least one of plurality of polysemous symbols displayed for selection on the second electronic screen overlay includes a background color that is different from a background color of a similarly situated polysemous symbol previously displayed for selection on the initial electronic screen overlay.

An apparatus, comprising:

• an integrated input and display device configured to display an initial electronic screen overlay and configured to provide polysemous symbols for selection on the initial electronic screen overlay, a plurality of the polysemous symbols with a same grammatical function or belonging to a same part of speech being displayed with a common background color;
• a memory configured to store a plurality of the selectable polysemous symbols in association with a pointer identifying display of an electronic screen overlay which is different from the initial electronic screen overlay;
• and
• a processor, configured to control the integrated input and display device to display a second electronic screen overlay, in response to the processor receiving an indication of initial selection of one of the provided polysemous symbols, the second electronic screen overlay being the electronic screen overlay associated with the selected polysemous symbol, wherein at least one of plurality of polysemous symbols displayed for selection on the second electronic screen overlay includes a background color that is different from a background color of a similarly situated polysemous symbol previously displayed for selection on the initial electronic screen overlay.

A method, comprising:

• providing polysemous symbols for selection on an initial electronic screen overlay displayed on a display, a plurality of the provided polysemous symbols including a visual indicator indicating a link to a next level electronic screen overlay which is different from the initial electronic screen overlay;
• storing, in a memory and in association with each one of the plurality of polysemous symbols, a pointer identifying display of the next level electronic screen overlay which is different from the initial electronic screen overlay;
• and
• displaying the next level electronic screen overlay which is different from the initial electronic screen overlay on the display, in response to initial selection of a respective one of the plurality of polysemous symbols including the visual indicator, the next level electronic screen overlay being the electronic screen overlay associated with the selected polysemous symbol.