Patent ID: 7707515

Claim:
In a device having a graphical user interface including a display and a user interface selection device, a method of allowing a user to select Indic script consonants for inclusion in a string of characters comprising consonants and vowels of indic script, said method comprising: receiving an input from the user via the user interface selection device, said input indicative of a first individual consonant of Indic script; providing a first display area presenting a grid comprising the first individual consonant and further comprising a plurality of first additional individual consonants of Indic script corresponding phonetically to the received input indicative of the first individual consonant, wherein the grid has a central area for displaying the first individual consonant and a plurality of at least four peripheral areas contiguous with the central area, each peripheral area displaying one of the plurality of first additional consonants phonetically related to the first individual consonant; providing a second display area displaying a string of individual characters; without displaying the first individual consonant in the second display area, permitting the user to navigate the grid one area at a time starting from the central area to any of the at least four peripheral areas and to select, via the user interface selection device, one of either the first individual consonant or one of the plurality of first additional individual consonants presented in the grid in the first display area; and displaying the selected individual consonant in the second display area as part of the string.