Patent ID: 9336198
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G06F,G06T,G09G

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: displaying, on a 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; storing, in a memory, 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; displaying on the 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 selection of the polysemous symbol from the initial electronic screen overlay, 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; and outputting at least one of a word, sentence, phoneme, message, letter, number, morpheme, command and phrase, in response to selection of one of the non-polysemous symbols.