Patent ID: 7974979
Filing Date: 2011-07-05
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A personal appliance having a display, keypad, memory, processing capability and a connection to at least one server allowing entry from a screen, which is in an idle state, of ambiguous data due to the association of multiple symbols with at least one or more of the keys, wherein the personal appliance is configured for: a. displaying an entered key sequence as a number sequence, the number sequence corresponding to keys pressed, said pressed keys from a set of keys routinely used in telephony applications, said displaying responsive to identifying the keys pressed; said displaying the entered key sequence as a number sequence, further configured for: g. responsive to clearing the display of the at least one of the candidates of number sequences, comparing the entered sequence with text sequences in a stored dictionary so as to attempt to disambiguate the sequence to text; and h. displaying disambiguated candidates of said text sequences for user selection.