Patent ID: 8806384

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving, by a computing device, an indication of a first user input detected at a presence-sensitive display; outputting, by the computing device and for display in a text display area at the presence-sensitive display, text based on the first user input detected at the presence-sensitive display; determining, by the computing device, a list of one or more suggested character strings based on the text; outputting, by the computing device and for display at the presence-sensitive display, the list of one or more suggested character strings; receiving, by the computing device, an indication of a second user input detected at the presence-sensitive display; determining whether the received second user input includes a replacement gesture, wherein the replacement gesture includes a first gesture in a substantially leftward direction and a second gesture in a substantially rightward direction; and responsive to determining that the received gesture input includes the replacement gesture, outputting, by the computing device and for display at the presence-sensitive display in place of the text in the text display area, a character string from the list of one or more suggested character strings, wherein the character string is ranked higher than at least one other character string from the list of one or more suggested character strings that are ranked in a ranked order.