Patent ID: 7912704

Claim:
A method of enabling disambiguation of an input into a handheld electronic device, the handheld electronic device including an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a memory having a plurality of objects stored therein, the plurality of objects including a plurality of language objects and a plurality of frequency objects, some of the language objects of the plurality of language objects being associated with a frequency object of the plurality of frequency objects, the handheld electronic device having at least one message available thereon, the at least one message having a number of language objects, the input apparatus including a plurality of input members, each of at least a portion of the input members of the plurality of input members having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto, the method comprising: storing in a first portion of memory at least a portion of the language objects of the at least one message, said first portion being associated with the at least one message; detecting at least one of a replying input and a forwarding input with respect to the at least one message; detecting an ambiguous input including a number of input member actuations of a number of the input members of the plurality of input members; identifying in the first portion of the memory a first language object that corresponds with the ambiguous input; and outputting at least a portion of the first language object as a first proposed disambiguation of the ambiguous input.