Patent Document ID: 8364134
Application ID: 11915624

Base Claim:
1. Method of controlling a keypad input mode for a text message entered on an electronic equipment for wireless communication, the method comprising steps for: determining a language setting for the text message, and setting the keypad input mode to a dictionary-based disambiguation mode relating to the determined language setting, whereby the language setting used at the beginning of the text message corresponds to the language setting used for the last text message entered on the electronic equipment for wireless communication or corresponds to the language determined for a received text message to be replied by the text message, and the language setting is subject to be changed if a match for a predetermined number of text elements entered for the text message is present in a further dictionary-based disambiguation mode related to a different language setting, wherein the language setting used for the text message entered last on the electronic equipment for wireless communication is provided in a data file.

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Claim 2:
2. Method according claim 1 , wherein the language of the received text message to be replied is determined by examining the text elements of the received text message with each of the dictionary-based disambiguation modes available on the electronic equipment for wireless communication and by defining the language of the received text message as the language of the dictionary-based disambiguation mode yielding the highest percentage of matches with a predefined number of text elements at the beginning of the received text message or with all text elements of the message.