Patent ID: 8060839
Filing Date: 2011-11-15
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A character input method for a mobile communication terminal, comprising: finding, in response to input of a key in a character input mode, at least one mapping of the key; creating, if the key has at least two mappings, a string selection list containing strings of characters mapped by the mappings; displaying the string selection list; and displaying, if one of the strings in the string selection list is selected, the selected string in an input window, wherein, for each one of the strings of characters mapped by the mappings, all of the characters within the one of the strings correspond to a same kind of mapping, and wherein each kind of mapping maps at most one character to each key of the mobile communication terminal, wherein in creating the string selection list, in response to successive input of keys having at least two mappings, strings of mapped characters corresponding to individual kinds of mappings are created, wherein the string selection list containing the strings of mapped characters is generated, wherein the creating a string selection list step further comprises: wherein the extracted phone number and the extracted name are inserted into the string selection list as separate selectable entries within the string selection list.