Patent ID: 7418137

Claim:
A system for accepting disparate types of computer user input, the system comprising: a user interface including a plurality of tabs, each of the plurality of tabs having a display associated therewith and each of the plurality of tabs having at least one area for receiving input from a user, wherein one of the plurality of tabs includes a word recognizer including a word entry area, wherein another one of the plurality of tabs includes a soft keyboard, wherein another one of the plurality of tabs includes character recognizer including more than one character entry area, and wherein responsive to user selection of one of the tabs, switching from displaying the display associated with one of plurality of tabs to displaying the display associated with another one of the plurality of tabs; and a text synchronizer for synchronizing text input by a user via word entry area, via the character entry area and via the soft keyboard by recognizing and preserving an order in which a user inputs text via the word entry area, via the character entry area, and via the soft keyboard.