Patent ID: 8768685
Filing Date: 2014-07-01
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of disambiguating an input into a handheld electronic device, the method comprising: detecting an ambiguous input including one or more selections of one or more input characters; generating one or more prefix objects corresponding with the ambiguous input, each of the one or more prefix objects including at least some of the input characters; generating an output set comprising at least some of the one or more prefix objects, wherein each of the at least some of the one or more prefix objects is associated with an identified corresponding word object; determining, using a processor, the quantity of prefix objects in the output set is fewer than a predetermined quantity, and, based on the determination, adding as an orphan prefix object to the output set at a position corresponding with a relatively low frequency an additional prefix object of the one or more of prefix objects for which a corresponding word object was not identified; and outputting the output set.