Patent ID: 8462119

Claim:
A method of facilitating input into a handheld electronic device having a text disambiguation function, a multi-directional navigation mechanism, a display and a reduced keyboard having a plurality of keys, one or more of said keys having multiple characters associated therewith, the method comprising: receiving an ambiguous input resulting from a selection of a plurality of said keys; generating a plurality of possible intended input strings having a same number of characters based on said ambiguous input using said text disambiguation function, the plurality of possible intended input strings including a default string; organizing said possible intended input strings into a plurality of groups, each of the groups including two or more of the possible intended input strings, the default string belonging to all of the plurality of groups, wherein said plurality of groups comprise a first group and a second group, wherein each of the possible intended input strings in the first group represents a word, and wherein the possible intended input strings in the second group, except the default string, represent letter sequences that do not represent words; displaying each of said groups on said display in a respective directional orientation relative to a reference location on said display at which the default string is positioned, wherein the respective directional orientation of the first group is perpendicular to the respective directional orientation of the second group; and enabling the selection of one of said possible intended input strings based on a directional input received from said multi-directional navigation mechanism, said directional input being in a direction that corresponds to the directional orientation of the group that includes said one of said possible intended input strings.