Patent ID: 7683886

Claim:
A method of displaying text on a handheld electronic device that comprises an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a memory having stored therein a plurality of objects comprising a plurality of language objects, the input apparatus comprising a plurality of input members, at least some of the input members each having a number of linguistic elements assigned thereto, at least one input member having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto, the method comprising: detecting a delimited ambiguous input comprising a number of input member actuations; generating a plurality of results in response to the delimited ambiguous input; and outputting an indication that each result of at least two of the results is substantially identical to a corresponding language object said outputting comprising: identifying, for each result of the at least two of the results, a corresponding language object associated with a frequency object having a frequency value; associating with each result of the at least two of the results the frequency value of the corresponding language object; determining a frequency delta between the frequency value associated with a first one of the at least two of the results and the frequency value associated with a second one of the at least two of the results; and outputting the indication when the frequency delta is less than a predetermined threshold.