Patent ID: 9454516
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of ambiguous word review or correction for a handheld electronic device, the handheld electronic device including a display apparatus and a touch screen apparatus operatively associated with the display apparatus, the method comprising: receiving an input of a plurality of selections of keys, each of the keys having at least one character assigned thereto; rendering a plurality of words responsive to the plurality of selections of the keys, wherein the plurality of words includes a plurality of previously typed words and a currently typed word; displaying at the display apparatus representations of the plurality of words; detecting a number of ambiguous words among the plurality of previously typed words, which are not misspelled, wherein each of the detected number of ambiguous previously typed words has two or more dictionary matches, and wherein one of the two or more dictionary matches is displayed at the display apparatus as a representation of the particular ambiguous previously typed word; for each of the detected number of ambiguous previously typed words, displaying a visual indicator; detecting touching of the touch screen in connection with one of the displayed visual indicators associated with an ambiguous previously typed word; responsive to the detected touching, displaying at the display apparatus: detecting touching of the touch screen in connection with one of displayed characters of the ambiguous previously typed word; and responsive to the detected touching of the touch screen in connection with the one of the displayed characters of the ambiguous previously typed word, displaying at the display apparatus a third magnification of a representation of a number of alternative characters to the one of the displayed characters of the ambiguous previously typed word, wherein the third magnification is displayed at a location different from both locations where the first magnification and the second magnification are displayed.