Graphical user interface for improved text character entry
AssigneeLookout, Inc.
InventorBrian James Buck
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Abstract
A graphical user interface for improved text character entry is disclosed. In some embodiments, the graphical user interface may be displayed on a mobile communications device. The graphical user interface may display a message field, a soft keyboard, and at least one visual foveal echo field. The message field may display text characters of a message being authored by a user interacting with the soft keyboard. The visual foveal echo field may be placed adjacent to a soft keyboard row and contain a portion of the message being authored by the user.
Claims11
A graphical user interface for display on a mobile communications device visual display comprising:
- a) a message field that displays text characters representing a message being authored by the mobile communications device user;
- b) a soft keyboard made up of rows of text character keys which when touched by the user enter text characters into the message field;
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- c) at least one visual foveal echo field adjacent a soft keyboard row, the echo field containing at least a portion of the text characters entered by the user into the message field.
A graphical user interface for display on a mobile communications device visual display comprising:
- a) a message field that displays text characters representing a message being authored by the mobile communications device user;
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- b) a soft keyboard made up of six rows of text character keys,
- the first row having only the text characters Q, W, E, R and T;
- the second row having only the text characters Y, U, I, O and P;
- the third row having only the text characters A, S, D, F and G;
- the fourth row having only the text characters H, J, K and L;
- the fifth row having only the text characters Z, X, C, V and B;
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- the sixth row having the text characters N and M.
A graphical user interface for display on a mobile communications device visual display comprising:
- a) a message field that displays text characters representing a message being authored by the mobile communications device user;
- b) a soft keyboard made up of six rows of text character keys which when touched by the user enter text characters into the message field, the rows arranged such that
- the first row has only the text characters Q, W, E, R and T;
- the second row has only the text characters Y, U, I, O and P;
- the third row has only the text characters A, S, D, F and G;
- the fourth row has only the text characters H, J, K and L;
- the fifth row has only the text characters Z, X, C, V and B;
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- the sixth row has the text characters N and M;
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- c) at least one visual foveal echo field adjacent a soft keyboard row, the echo field containing at least a portion of the text characters entered by the user into the message field.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.