Patent ID: 8320959
Filing Date: 2012-11-27
Classification: G06F,H03M

Abstract:
1. A method of disambiguating a text input into an electronic device that comprises an input apparatus and a memory, the input apparatus comprising a multiple-axis input device, the memory having stored therein a plurality of words and associated frequency values, the method comprising: detecting an ambiguous text input; identifying a set of words from the plurality of words stored in the memory, the set of words corresponding to the ambiguous text input; determining, from the set of words, a first word as a preferred potential word match for the ambiguous text input, based on a comparison of the frequency values associated with words in the set of words, the first word having a first associated frequency value; outputting at least a subset of the set of words, including the first word and at least one other word selected from the set of words; detecting a selection of a second word having a second associated frequency value from the subset of the set of words that is different from the first word, the selection being made by an input from the multi-axis input device, the first associated frequency value being greater than the second associated frequency value; and responsive to the selection, creating a revised frequency value.