Patent Document ID: 8237658
Application ID: 11098784

Base Claim:
1. A method of disambiguating an input into a handheld electronic device, the handheld electronic device including an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a processor apparatus including a memory having a plurality of objects stored therein, the plurality of objects including a plurality of language objects, each language object of at least a portion of the plurality of language objects comprising at least a first linguistic element, the plurality of language objects including a plurality of word objects the input apparatus including a plurality of input members, each of at least a portion of the input members of the plurality of input members having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto, the method comprising: detecting an ambiguous input including a number of input member actuations of a number of the input members of the plurality of input members, each of at least a portion of the input members of the number of input members including a number of linguistic elements assigned thereto, at least one of the input members of the number of input members having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto, wherein the ambiguous input has an input case makeup; generating a number of prefix objects corresponding with the ambiguous input, each prefix object of the number of prefix objects including a number of the linguistic elements of the number of the input members of the ambiguous input; for at least a first prefix object of the number of prefix objects, identifying at least a pair of word objects of the plurality of language objects corresponding with the at least a first prefix object, each of the at least a pair of word objects having the number of linguistic elements of the first prefix object set forth in the same order, at least a portion of a first word object of the at least a pair of word objects having a first case makeup comprising a number of case elements, at least a portion of a second word object of the at least a pair of word objects having a second case makeup comprising a number of case elements, the first case makeup and the second case makeup being different than one another; determining that at least a portion of the input case makeup corresponds with at least a portion of the first case makeup; outputting among a predetermined quantity of alternative proposed interpretations of the ambiguous input, as a relatively more preferred variant, the at least a first prefix object in accordance with the first case makeup; and outputting as a relatively less preferred variant the at least a first prefix object in accordance with the second case makeup.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 including the steps of: associating at least a portion of the number of prefix objects respectively with a corresponding word object having a frequency object with a corresponding frequency value stored in memory; and outputting the portion of the number of prefix objects in a list in descending order of frequency value except that the more preferred variant is listed ahead of the relatively less preferred variant.