Patent ID: 8799779

Claim:
A text input method for a portable device, the method comprising: displaying a screen including a text input area with at least one consonant and vowel; detecting one or more multi-touch events obtained by multi-touching at least two key icons included in the text input area, wherein a multi-touch event of the one or more multi-touch events comprises touching one of the at least two key icons while maintaining a touch to another of the at least two key icons; and combining key icons selected based on the multi-touch events to display at least one specific text, wherein the displayed at least one specific text is not input while the one or more multi-touch events are maintained, and wherein each of the at least two key icons is selected from a predetermined set of key icons comprising at least one vowel key icon, at least one consonant key icon, and at least one key icon for inputting a double consonant.