Patent ID: 7555732

Claim:
A method for an interface for data entry, comprising detecting an input with respect to the interface wherein detecting the input comprises detecting a press in a first zone of a set of zones, wherein at least one of the set of zones is non-contiguous with at least one other of the set of zones and at least one of the set of zones differs in shape from at least one other of the set zones; detecting a release in a second zone of the set of zones and detecting a movement between the press and release, wherein detecting the movement further comprises detecting entering or leaving one or more of the set of zones between the press in the first zone and the release in the second zone and contact is maintained with the interface between the press in the first zone and the release in the second zone; and associating a semantic meaning with the input based on a set of semantic meanings associated with the first zone, wherein the semantic meaning is selected from the set of semantic meanings associated with the first zone based on the second zone.