Patent Document ID: 8878703
Application ID: 13111509

Base Claim:
1. A method of disambiguating an input into a handheld electronic device including a memory having a plurality of objects stored therein, the plurality of objects including a plurality of word objects and a plurality of frequency objects, each of at least a portion of the plurality of word objects being associated with a frequency object of the plurality of frequency objects, the method comprising: detecting an ambiguous input; generating a plurality of prefix objects corresponding with the ambiguous input, each prefix object of the plurality of prefix objects including a number of the characters; for each prefix object of at least a portion of the plurality of prefix objects, identifying a word object of the plurality of word objects, the identified word object corresponding to the prefix object; obtaining a frequency object of the plurality of frequency objects associated with the identified word object and having a frequency value; generating an output set of the prefix objects sorted according to the frequency values associated therewith; detecting an input key selection associated with a prefix object corresponding to the identified word object; and outputting, in response to the input key selection, the selected prefix object.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least a portion of the output set includes a first prefix object being a default output and a second prefix object being a variant output, the default output having a relatively higher priority than the variant output.