Patent ID: 9600086
Date: 2017-03-21
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method of operating an electronic device comprising the steps of: initiating entry of a content string; determining a most probable completion alternative using a personalized and learning database, wherein the personalized and learning database comprises recently used data, said data comprising any of: one or more word associations, one or more context associations, one or more sensitivity associations, one or more Uniform Resource Locators, and one or more electronic mail addresses, said determining comprising: displaying the most probable completion alternative; determining whether a user has accepted the most probable completion alternative; and adding the most probable completion alternative to the content string when the user has accepted the most probable completion alternative; providing a user interface that comprises a navigation key having a first set of controls and a second set of controls; wherein said first set of controls are configured for acceptance or non-acceptance of the most probable completion alternative currently displayed at the display when in an editing mode and said second set of controls are configured for changing or overriding the most probable completion alternative currently displayed at the display when in the editing mode; wherein said first set of controls are configured for scrolling a cursor right one character at a time or scrolling the cursor left one character at a time when said first set of controls are in a navigation mode; wherein said second set of controls are configured for scrolling the cursor down one line at a time or scrolling the cursor up one line at a time, when said second set of controls are in the navigation mode; and wherein: