Patent ID: 8185841

Claim:
A text input method for an electronic apparatus having a user interface with a touch-sensitive display screen, wherein a virtual keyboard is presentable on said display screen so as to facilitate text input for a user by pointing at different virtual keys of said virtual keyboard, and wherein word completion functionality is provided for predicting full word candidates for partial word inputs made by said user on said virtual keyboard, the method comprising: receiving a partial word input from said user; deriving a set of full word candidates using said word completion functionality, each of the full word candidates in said set having a prefix and a suffix, wherein the prefix corresponds to said partial word input; and presenting the suffixes for at least a sub set of the full word candidates in a predetermined area on said display screen, wherein the predetermined area is located within or at the virtual keyboard on the display screen and the predetermined area is located within, or on top of, a space bar included in the virtual keyboard wherein each of the presented suffixes is made selectable for said user; detecting selection by said user of one of the presented suffixes; and for the selected suffix, replacing a presentation of said partial word on said display screen with a presentation of the full word candidate to which the suffix belongs; wherein said step of detecting selection by said user involves differentiating between a first type of selection and a second type of selection, and wherein said step of replacing a presentation involves adding a space character after said full word candidate if the detected selection is of said first type.