Patent ID: 6978421

Claim:
A text input system comprising: means for entering a line of text, character by character; means for storing a plurality of lines of text, in a dictionary; means for identifying plural lines of text with the same first part which includes said entered line of text in said dictionary, and determining a unique line of text which has the same last character as the last entered character, among said identified plural lines of text, at the tine of character input; means for identifying plural lines of text with the same first part which includes said entered line of text in said dictionary, and determining a unique line of text which includes the same one as the last entered characters in the remaining part of line of text in said dictionary other than that was successfully collated with said entered line of text, among said identified plural lines of text, at the time of character input; means for replacing said entered line of text with what was determined by said means for identifying and determining.