Patent ID: 8863037

Claim:
A handheld electronic device, comprising: a body comprising: a display area; a cursor navigation area; and a keyfield area comprising: a reduced keyboard comprising a plurality of input keys, at least a portion of said input keys each having a plurality of alphabetic characters associated therewith; and a microprocessor communicatively connected between said input keys and a display screen of the display area and communicatively connected between the cursor navigation area and the display screen, said microprocessor configured to: receive input data indicative of a detected contact with a particular input key having a plurality of alphabetic characters associated therewith; identify the particular input key associated with the detected contact; in response to identifying the particular input key, determine at least one of a plurality of associated alphabetic characters associated with the identified particular input key using a disambiguation software; display at least two associated alphabetic characters corresponding with the identified particular input key; determine that the detected contact uninterruptedly continues as sweeping motion from the identified particular input key across to the cursor navigation area; determine where the uninterruptedly sweeping motion across the cursor navigation area stops; and in response to determining where the uninterruptedly sweeping motion stops, select one of the at least two associated alphabetic characters corresponding to where the uninterruptedly sweeping motion stops.