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

A apparatus, comprising:

• an integrated input and display configured to display a virtual keyboard including polysemous symbols for selection on an initial electronic screen overlay, a plurality of the polysemous symbols including an associated visual indicator indicating a link to one of a plurality of second electronic screen overlays, each different from the initial electronic screen overlay;
• a memory, configured to store a the plurality of the selectable polysemous symbols in association with a pointer the pointer linking each of the plurality of the selectable polysemous symbols to one of the plurality of second electronic screen overlays;
• a processor configured to determine selection of one of the provided polysemous symbols, and configured to control the display of the one of the plurality of second electronic screen overlays, linked to a selected one of the plurality of polysemous symbols, on the integrated input and display, in response to the determined selection, the displayed one of the second electronic screen overlays including a virtual keyboard wherein less than all of a plurality of key locations on the virtual keyboard include a non-polysemous symbol, wherein at least one of plurality of polysemous symbols displayed for selection on the second electronic screen overlay either includes an associated visual indicator when a similarly situated polysemous symbol on the initial electronic screen overlay did not include an associated visual indicator or does not include an associated visual indicator when a similarly situated polysemous symbol on the initial electronic screen overlay included an associated visual indicator, the integrated input and display device being further configured to either control output of at least one of a word, sentence, phoneme, message, letter, number, morpheme, command and phrase in response to the processor determining selection of one of the non-polysemous symbols.

A method, comprising:

• providing polysemous symbols for selection on an initial electronic screen overlay displayed on a display, a subset of the plurality of the polysemous symbols being displayed with a first background color, the first background color indicating a grammatical function or part of speech;
• storing, in a memory, a plurality of the selectable polysemous symbols in association with a pointer, the pointer linking each of the plurality of the selectable polysemous symbols to one of a plurality of second electronic screen overlays, each different from the initial electronic screen overlay;
• and
• displaying the one of the plurality of second electronic screen overlays linked to a selected one of the plurality of polysemous symbols, in response to selection of the polysemous symbols from the initial electronic screen overlay, wherein at least one of plurality of polysemous symbols displayed for selection on the second electronic screen overlay is displayed with a second background color, indicating a different grammatical function or part of speech than indicated by the first background color, that is different from the first 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 subset of the plurality of the polysemous symbols being displayed with a first background color, the first background color indicating a grammatical function or part of speech;
• a memory configured to store a plurality of the selectable polysemous symbols in association with a pointer, the pointer linking each of the plurality of the selectable polysemous symbols to one of a plurality of second electronic screen overlays, each different from the initial electronic screen overlay;
• and
• a processor, configured to control the integrated input and display device to display the one of the plurality of second electronic screen overlays linked to a selected one of the plurality of polysemous symbols, in response to the processor receiving an indication of selection of the polysemous symbols from the initial electronic screen overlay,
• wherein at least one of plurality of polysemous symbols displayed for selection on the second electronic screen overlay is displayed with a second background color, indicating a different grammatical function or part of speech than indicated by the first background color, that is different from the first background color of a similarly situated polysemous symbol previously displayed for selection on the initial electronic screen overlay.