Patent Document ID: 8117540
Application ID: 11940400

Base Claim:
1. Context sensitive text input method, comprising the steps of: determining a list of candidate words for the present input context, a candidate word being a possible textual continuation of the present context; wherein the present context comprises at least one preceding word or delimiter; arranging the candidate words in groups, each group having a group designator; displaying the group designators; prompting the user to select a group and receiving the user selection; displaying candidate words of the selected group, the displayed candidate words being arranged according to their respective contextual relevance; prompting the user to select a candidate word and receiving the user selection; and accepting the selected candidate word as text input and updating the context.

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Claim 5:
5. Method according to claim 1 , wherein the candidates words of the selected group are sorted according to candidate scores indicating their contextual relevance, and the candidate words are arranged according to their respective scores such that candidate words having a better score are displayed for allowing a selection with less user inputs.