Patent ID: 7395203

Claim:
A method for disambiguating ambiguous input sequences entered by a user and generating textual output in Chinese language, said method comprising the steps of: entering an input sequence into a user input device; wherein said user input device comprises a plurality of input means, each of said input means being associated with a plurality of phonetic characters, an input sequence being generated each time when an input is selected by said user input device, said generated input sequence having a textual interpretation that is ambiguous due to the plurality of phonetic characters associated with said inputs, data consisting of a plurality of input sequences and, associated with each input sequence, a set of phonetic sequences whose spellings correspond to the input sequence, and a database containing a plurality of phonetic sequences and, associated with each phonetic sequence, a set of ideographic character sequences which correspond to the phonetic sequences; comparing the input sequence with said phonetic sequence database and finding matching phonetic entries; optionally displaying one or more matched phonetic entries; matching said phonetic entries with said ideographic database; and optionally displaying one or more matched ideographic characters.