Patent ID: 7548849

Claim:
A method of entering text into a handheld electronic device having at least one application for receiving text from sources external to the handheld electronic device and a text input process that accesses at least one list of stored language objects to facilitate generation of text, the method comprising: processing received text received from an external source comprising scanning the received text for any new language objects not in any list of stored language objects; determining that a ratio of the quantity of new language objects in at least a segment of the received text to the quantity of language objects in the at least a segment of the received text exceeds a first predetermined threshold; identifying one or more particular ones of said new language objects on the basis that each of the one or more particular ones of said new language objects is determined to be in a language other than at least a first predetermined language; determining that a ratio of the quantity of the one or more particular ones of said new language objects to the quantity of said new language objects exceeds a second predetermined threshold and, responsive thereto, ignoring all of the new language objects.