Patent ID: 7671765

Claim:
A method for input of text symbols into an electronic device having a reduced keyboard, the reduced keyboard having keys representing a plurality of characters, comprising: receiving character inputs from the reduced keyboard; identifying symbol variants based on the received character inputs; grouping each symbol variant in one of a plurality of groups of symbol variants according to a type of the symbol variant, each of the plurality of groups having an associated priority; ranking the symbol variants within at least one of the groups of symbol variants in decreasing order of frequencies of use of the symbol variants; displaying a list of symbol variants comprising the plurality of groups of symbol variants in order of decreasing priority; and selecting an input symbol from the list of symbol variants, wherein the symbol variants of the at least one of the groups of symbol variants are sorted by both priority and frequency of use; wherein the text symbols comprise Korean text symbols, and wherein the plurality of groups of symbol variants comprise a Hangul syllables group, a compound Jamo characters group, and a basic Jamo characters group.