Patent ID: 8612885

Claim:
A mobile terminal comprising: a touchscreen configured to display a keypad including a plurality of key buttons each button having assigned a different alphabet character; and a controller configured to receive a first key input of a first key button of the plurality of key buttons of the keypad, to display a first alphabet character originally assigned to the first key button on a display portion of the mobile terminal, to predict a word that starts with the first alphabet character, to receive a second key input of the first key button of the keypad consecutively after the first key input, and to display a second alphabet character different from the first alphabet character included in the predicted word on the display portion based on the second key input, wherein the controller is further configured to, in response to receiving the first key input of the first key button, change a display of the first key button from the first alphabet character to the second alphabet character while maintaining displaying alphabet characters originally assigned to the rest of the key buttons of the plurality of key buttons on the rest of the key buttons, respectively.