Patent ID: 11868609
Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. A computer hardware memory device embodied with executable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations, comprising:
displaying a soft keyboard within a user interface (UI) on a screen of a device with:
a first key having a display boundary that remains constant but with an associated hit target that changes, and
a second key that is adjacent to the first key, the second key having a display boundary that remains constant;

identifying a grammar type of a first word entered on the UI by a user;
predicting a second word having a different grammar type than the grammar type of the first word; and
increasing the hit target of the first key based on the predicted second word such that the hit target extends over at least a portion of the display boundary of the second key of the soft keyboard.