Patent ID: 9092418
Filing Date: 2015-07-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method of enabling text input on a handheld electronic device that comprises a memory having a plurality of language objects stored therein, the method comprising: detecting a text entry comprising a plurality of characters; responsive to determining that no language object in the memory corresponds with the detected text entry, searching the memory to identify as proposed spell-check interpretations of the text entry language objects that correspond with a modified text entry that comprises the text entry having a wild card element in place of each of a number of terminal characters of the text entry, each wild card element being any character, including an absence of a character, in an alphabet; determining that an insufficient quantity of proposed spell-check interpretations have been identified, and responsive thereto: outputting one or more of the proposed language objects as proposed spell-check interpretations of the text entry.