Patent ID: 7996781

Claim:
A method for selecting an entry from a list of entries on an electronic device, comprising: displaying a plurality of banks; receiving a bank selection event for selecting a bank from the plurality of banks, the selected bank containing a set of characters; appending the set of characters to a prefix, where the set of characters occupies a single position of the prefix; determining a current result list of entries that match the prefix, the current result list of entries being a subset of the list of entries, wherein determining the current result list of entries that match the prefix further comprises determining entries that contain a sequence of characters such that each character in a particular position of the sequence is contained in the set of characters at the same position of the prefix, and wherein the sequence of characters is at any location within the matched entry; reducing the list of entries to the current result list of entries; displaying the current result list of entries; and highlighting at least one character in each entry of the current result list of entries, the highlighted characters matching the prefix.