Patent Document ID: 9092418
Application ID: 11694384

Base Claim:
1. A method of enabling text input on a handheld electronic device that comprises a memory having a plurality of language objects stored therein, the method comprising: detecting a text entry comprising a plurality of characters; responsive to determining that no language object in the memory corresponds with the detected text entry, searching the memory to identify as proposed spell-check interpretations of the text entry language objects that correspond with a modified text entry that comprises the text entry having a wild card element in place of each of a number of terminal characters of the text entry, each wild card element being any character, including an absence of a character, in an alphabet; determining that an insufficient quantity of proposed spell-check interpretations have been identified, and responsive thereto: generating another modified text entry having one additional terminal character replaced with the wild card element; and searching the memory to identify as proposed spell-check interpretations of the text entry language objects that correspond with the another modified text entry, wherein if insufficient language objects have been identified, repeating said generating and said searching until sufficient language objects have been identified; and outputting one or more of the proposed language objects as proposed spell-check interpretations of the text entry.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 wherein the memory has a number of spell check algorithms stored therein for execution on the handheld electronic device, and further comprising subjecting the modified text entry to at least some of the spell check algorithms to seek proposed spell check interpretations of the text entry.