Dynamic soft keyboard for touch screen device

Abstract

In a processing system having a touch screen display, a method and apparatus for dynamically updating a soft keyboard shown on the touch screen display. The method includes receiving user input data from a user. When the user input data indicates a current character, predicting a likelihood of at least one next character being entered by the user, and assigning the at least one next character to a soft key of the soft keyboard based at least in part on a correlation of the likelihood of the at least one next character being entered next by the user and a distance of the soft key to a predetermined location of the soft keyboard. The soft keyboard may then be updated on the touch screen display.

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