Patent ID: 8648796

Claim:
A handheld electronic device comprising: a processor apparatus including a memory and a number of routines; an input apparatus in electronic communication with said processor apparatus and structured to provide input to said processor apparatus; an output apparatus including a display in electronic communication with said processor apparatus and structured to receive output from said processor apparatus; said number of routines including at least one user interface routine; said at least one user interface routine including a stroke-based user interface routine; the processor apparatus being structured to execute said stroke-based user interface routine; said stroke-based user interface routine being structured to present a display output portion including a message to be sent, a display active portion including a representation of standard strokes, and a display filter portion including a set of disambiguated ideographic language object outputs, the three portions located separately and adjacent to each other on said display; and said stroke-based user interface routine being further structured to: receive stroke-based input in the form of modified strokes; present a modified stroke in the display active portion; correlate the modified stroke to a standard stroke; and update the display active portion to replace the modified stroke with the standard stroke and to present the standard stroke relatively large relative to the display active portion for receiving user input.