Touchscreen keyboard predictive display and generation of a set of characters
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsJason Tyler Griffin, Gil Pinheiro, Donald Somerset McCulloch McKenzie, Jerome Pasquero, David Ryan Walker
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Abstract
A communication device includes a display with a layout including key locations with associated characters. The communication device detects an input gesture and determines one or more committed characters based at least in part on a change in the input gesture. The device presents one or more strings on the layout in association with key locations that are selected based at least in part on a relationship between each presented string and non-committed characters of each presented string.
Claims20
An input method for a communication device having a programmed algorithm configured to predict input, the input method comprising:
- displaying an initial predicted string;
- detecting a swipe input gesture;
- determining one or more committed characters, wherein each one of the one or more committed characters is committed based at least in part on a change of direction in the swipe input gesture at a key location associated with the corresponding committed character, and;
- displaying an updated predicted string, the updated predicted string including the one or more committed characters and having been generated by the programmed algorithm configured to predict input,
- wherein the updated predicted string is presented at or near a key location associated with the non-committed characters of the updated predicted string.
A communication device, comprising:
- a display, and
- a processor configured to read computer executable instructions that when executed:
- display an initial predicted string;
- detect a swipe gesture;
- determine one or more committed characters, wherein each one of the one or more committed characters is committed based at least in part on a change of direction in the swipe gesture at a key location associated with the corresponding committed character, and;
- display an updated predicted string at or near a key location that is selected based at least in part on a relationship between the updated predicted string and non-committed characters of the updated predicted string,
- wherein the updated predicted string includes the one or more committed characters.
An input method for a communication device having a keyboard, the input method comprising:
- detecting an input gesture, the input gesture comprising a direction,
- determining one or more committed characters, wherein each one of the one or more committed characters is committed based at least in part on a change of the direction of the input gesture at a key location associated with the corresponding committed character and,
- presenting on a display one or more strings at or near key locations that are selected based at least in part on a relationship between each presented string and a character associated with the selected key location,
- wherein the one or more strings include the one or more committed characters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.