Patent Document ID: 7698128
Application ID: 11331700

Base Claim:
1. A method of enabling 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, at least some of the language objects each being associated with an associated frequency object, at least some of the language objects each comprising a number of linguistic elements, the input apparatus including a plurality of input members, each of at least some of the input members having a plurality of the linguistic elements assigned thereto, the method comprising: detecting an ambiguous input; generating a number of compound language solutions by, for each compound language solution, identifying a language object corresponding with an initial portion of the ambiguous input and having a length equal to the length of the initial portion, and identifying another language object corresponding with another portion of the ambiguous input; for at least a first compound language solution, generating a junction object comprising a terminal linguistic element of the language object and an initial linguistic element of the another language object, and making a determination that at least one of: the junction object corresponds with a language object associated with a frequency object having a frequency value below a predetermined threshold, and no language object corresponds with the junction object; outputting with the output apparatus a representation of each of at least some of the compound language solutions, each said representation comprising a representation of the language object and a representation of at least a portion of the another language object; and at least one of: outputting a representation of the at least first compound language solution at a position of relatively lower priority than a representation of another compound language solution, and suppressing from the output the at least first compound language solution.

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Claim 2:
2. The method of claim 1 wherein said language objects comprise a number of word objects and a number of n-gram objects, further comprising making as said determination a determination that at least one of: the junction object corresponds with an n-gram object associated with a frequency object having a frequency value below a predetermined threshold, and no n-gram object corresponds with the junction object.