Patent ID: 7137749

Claim:
A keyboard for computers or electronic data entry devices or the like, having a plurality of alphabetic characters or letters assigned to keys in a region of three rows, wherein said region is comprised of a middle row, an upper row above the middle row and a lower row below the middle row, and said region has sequential key numbers from left to right, which correspond to letter assignments on a Standard Qwerty key layout as follows: on the upper row, sequential key numbers 1 through 10 correspond directly to the letters Q through P, in order from left to right, and on the middle row, sequential key numbers 11 through 19 correspond to the letters A through L, in order from left to right, and on the lower row, sequential key numbers 20 through 26 correspond directly to the letters Z through M, in order from left to right, and wherein said region has a left hand side defined by the key numbers: 1 to 5 , and 11 to 15 , and 20 to 23 , inclusive, and wherein said region has a right hand side defined by the key numbers: 7 to 10 , and 16 to 19 , and 25 and 26 , inclusive, and said keyboard includes: the vowels A and E, located on said right hand side of the middle row, and the consonants S and N, located on said left hand side of the middle row, and the consonants R and T, located on said left hand side of the upper row, and the vowels U, I, and O, located on said right hand side of the upper row.