Patent Document ID: 7801722
Application ID: 11701140

Base Claim:
1. A computer-implemented method at a computing device for creating and using phonetic schemes, the method comprising: receiving input to create a phonetic scheme, the phonetic scheme comprising one or more phonetic character combinations in a source language and one or more native characters in a destination language for each of the phonetic character combinations; receiving a phonetic character combination in the source language; translating the phonetic character combination into one or more native characters in the destination language using the phonetic scheme, the phonetic character combination being translated by a phonetic input application executed by a processor of the computing device; and displaying a selectable list of suggestions of one or more native characters in the destination language, the suggestions including the one or more native characters in the destination language, a plurality of phonetic equivalents to the phonetic character combination based on the phonetic scheme, and a plurality of sound-alike equivalents to the one or more native characters in the destination language.

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Claim 2:
2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1 , further comprising receiving a selection of a character combination from a phonetic scheme creation list that includes a first set of phonetic character combinations of the one or more phonetic character combinations in the source language to achieve the one or more native characters in the destination language, and displaying the one or more native characters.