Patent ID: 9286884
Filing Date: 2016-03-15
CPC Classification: G06F,G09B,G10L

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising: providing a hardware keyboard including a plurality of keys, at least some of the keys including at least one of engraved and embossed surfaces depicting polysemous symbols, each at least one of engraved and embossed surface of a respective one of the plurality of keys providing distinctive tactile feedback to a user, indicative of a corresponding one of the polysemous symbols, the distinctive tactile feedback being provided upon the user contacting respective polysemous symbols on the keys; and accessing a word, phoneme or plural word message, based upon sequentially selected ones of the polysemous symbols providing distinctive tactile feedback, wherein the keyboard includes one or more tactile elements, in addition to the plurality of polysemous symbols, usable as a guide during manual exploration of the keyboard.