Patent Document ID: 7583205
Application ID: 11191754

Base Claim:
1. A method of disambiguating an input into a handheld electronic device having an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a memory having stored therein a plurality of language objects and a plurality of frequency objects, each of at least some of the language objects being associated with an associated frequency object, the input apparatus including a plurality of input members, each of at least some of the input members having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto, the method comprising: detecting an ambiguous input; identifying a first language object corresponding with a first portion of the ambiguous input and having a length equal to the length of the first portion; identifying a second language object corresponding with a second portion of the ambiguous input; identifying an alternate first language object corresponding with an alternate first portion of the ambiguous input and having a length equal to the length of the alternate first portion; identifying an alternate second language object corresponding with an alternate second portion of the ambiguous input; and outputting a solution representative of the first language object and at least a portion of the second language object and an alternate solution representative of the alternate first language object and at least a portion of the alternate second language object.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising outputting the solution and the alternate solution in descending order of priority.