Patent ID: 9557916
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K

Claim:
1. A text entry system comprising: an auto-correcting virtual keyboard region that includes a plurality of characters of an alphabet, wherein one or more of the plurality of characters corresponds to a location with known coordinates in the auto-correcting virtual keyboard region, and wherein a location associated with user interaction is determined when a user interacts within the auto-correcting virtual keyboard region; a location value calculation component that calculates, for a determined interaction location in an input sequence of interaction locations, a set of weighted location values between the interaction location and the known coordinate locations corresponding to a plurality of neighboring characters within the auto-correcting virtual keyboard region; a word evaluation component that identifies at least one candidate object using information regarding both preceding and succeeding user interactions in determining an intended character for each user interaction and for said at least one candidate object, evaluates said at least one candidate object by calculating a matching metric based on the calculated location, and ranks the at least one candidate object based on the calculated matching metric values; and a selection component for identifying at least one candidate object according to said evaluated ranking and for presenting said at least one identified object to the user.