Patent Document ID: 8290765
Application ID: 11082245

Base Claim:
1. A method of enabling disambiguation of an input into a handheld electronic device, the handheld electronic device including an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a memory having a plurality of objects stored therein, the plurality of objects including a plurality of language objects and a plurality of frequency objects, each of at least a portion of the language objects of the plurality of language objects being associated with an associated frequency object of the plurality of frequency 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: initiating on the handheld electronic device a second message in response to a first received message, the first received message having a sender, the second message including the sender as a recipient of a number of recipients; storing in the memory a first language object from the first received message, the first language object corresponding to the sender of the first received message; associating a relatively high frequency value with the first language object from the first received message; detecting an ambiguous input for the second message, the 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 is at least a portion of a salutation of the second message; determining that the first language object stored in the memory corresponds with the ambiguous input for the second message; and outputting an output including at least a portion of the first language object as a first proposed disambiguation of the ambiguous input.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1 wherein: the first received message further includes at least one recipient; and the second message includes the at least one recipient of the first received message as at least one of the number of recipients.