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Patent US7957955 - Method and system for providing word recommendations for text input - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inAdvanced Patent SearchPatentsWord recommendations are provided in response to text input. For a particular text input, possible word recommendations are identified based on the characters of the input and corresponding neighbor characters on a keyboard layout. The possible word recommendations are scored based on how closely they...http://www.google.com/patents/US7957955?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7957955 - Method and system for providing word recommendations for text inputAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS7957955 B2Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 11/620,641Publication dateJun 7, 2011Filing dateJan 5, 2007Priority dateJan 5, 2007Also published asCN101641661A, DE202008000265U1, EP2100210A1, US20080167858, WO2008085736A1Publication number11620641, 620641, US 7957955 B2, US 7957955B2, US-B2-7957955, US7957955 B2, US7957955B2InventorsGreg Christie, Bas Ording, Scott Forstall, Kenneth Kocienda, Richard Williamson, Jerome Ren� BellegardaOriginal AssigneeApple Inc.Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (59), Non-Patent Citations (24), Referenced by (13), Classifications (8), Legal Events (2) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetMethod and system for providing word recommendations for text inputUS 7957955 B2Abstract Word recommendations are provided in response to text input. For a particular text input, possible word recommendations are identified based on the characters of the input and corresponding neighbor characters on a keyboard layout. The possible word recommendations are scored based on how closely they match the input word on a character-by-character basis, and a subset of the possible word recommendations are selected for presentation to the user.
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