Patent ID: 7650445
Filing Date: 2010-01-19
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system for enabling utilization of a portable electronic communication device as a peripheral input device for providing character inputs to a second electronic device, said system comprising: a first device that is a portable electronic communication device utilized for standard voice and data communication over a first wireless communication interface, said first device having: a processing component; a touch input mechanism for receiving character inputs; a mode switching utility that switches the first device between a first standard communication mode enabling standard voice and data communication and a second peripheral input device mode, wherein the first device operates as a peripheral input device for remote character input, including non-standard characters, to a second device separate from local character input to the first device when in the second peripheral input device mode and wherein the mode switching utility enables a concurrent use of the first device for voice and data communication while the first device is in the second peripheral input device mode; a character input recognition (CIR) utility, which, when the first device is in the peripheral input device mode, executes on the processing component to provide the functions of: