Patent ID: 7155683

Claim:
A communication terminal having: a display; a keypad for use in the operation of said communication terminal having a plurality of keys associated with several letters each; processor means controlling the display in accordance with the operation of the keypad; a predictive editor program for generating an output containing word matching a received string of ambiguous key strokes, said predictive editor program having a number of associated vocabularies including at least one language dependent dictionary and at least one dictionary receiving user defined inputs stored in a first memory which serves said predictive editor program; an editor application controlled by the processor means communicates with said predictive editor program for generating matching words based on an ambiguous string of key strokes; at least one applications predictive editor program independent of said predictive editor program: second memory means of the communication terminal independent of said first memory means for storing user inputted data in an electronic database, said second memory means serving said at least one applications program; and wherein said processor means automatically searches said second memory means for words and copies these words into said at least one dictionary for receiving user defined inputs and associated with said predictive editor program.