Patent ID: 9547375
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method performed by a mobile computing device, the method comprising: presenting, on a touch-sensitive display of the mobile computing device, a split virtual keyboard that is split into a first portion and a second portion, the first portion comprising a first key and a second key, the first key representative of a first plurality of characters and the second key representative of a second plurality of characters, the second portion comprising a third key, a non-keyboard portion separates the first portion of the split virtual keyboard from the second portion of the split virtual keyboard, and wherein the first portion and the second portion are simultaneously presented on the touch-sensitive display; detecting a stroke between the first key and the second key, the stroke being a continuous transition over the touch-sensitive display between the first key and the second key; and responsive to detecting the stroke, outputting a word based upon the stroke detected over the first key and the second key.