Patent ID: 8022932
Filing Date: 2011-09-20
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of enabling disambiguation of an input into a handheld electronic device, the handheld electronic device including an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a memory having a plurality of objects stored therein, the plurality of objects including a plurality of language objects, the input apparatus including a plurality of input members, each of at least a portion of the input members of the plurality of input members having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto, the method comprising: receiving on the handheld electronic device data including one or more language objects; identifying, from among the one or more language objects, one or more proper language objects that have an upper case character as a first character; determining that one or more of the identified proper language objects includes the same characters as one of the plurality of language objects stored in the memory, wherein the plurality of language objects stored in the memory include a non-upper case character as the first character; storing the identified one or more proper language objects in the memory; detecting an ambiguous input including a number of input member actuations of a number of the input members, wherein at least one of the input members has a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto; identifying one or more of the stored proper language objects that corresponds with the ambiguous input; and outputting at least a portion of the one or more stored proper language objects as a proposed disambiguation of the ambiguous input.