Patent ID: 7920132
Filing Date: 2011-04-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A text entry system comprising: a user input device comprising a virtual keyboard including an auto-correcting region comprising a plurality of the characters of a character set, where the characters occupy different character locations with different known coordinates in the auto-correcting region, wherein an interaction location associated with a user interaction is determined when a user interacts with the user input device within the auto-correcting region, the interaction location including coordinates of a contact point on the auto-correcting region, and the determined interaction location is added to a current input sequence of interaction locations; a machine readable vocabulary containing a plurality of objects, wherein one or more of the objects comprise a string of one or a plurality of characters forming all or part of a word or phrase; an output device having an output text region and an object choice list region; and a processor coupled to the user input device, the vocabulary, and the output device, said processor programmed to perform operations comprising: