Patent Document ID: 8102284
Application ID: 12507279

Base Claim:
1. A method of disambiguating an input into a handheld electronic device having an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a memory having stored therein a plurality of language objects and a plurality of frequency objects, each of at least some of the language objects being associated with an associated frequency object, a plurality of said language objects being word objects, said word objects being representative of complete words in a particular language, the input apparatus including a plurality of input members, each of at least some of the input members having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto, the method comprising: detecting an ambiguous input; identifying in the memory a first language object representative of a first complete word and corresponding with an initial portion of the ambiguous input and having a length equal to the length of the initial portion; identifying in the memory a second language object representative of a second complete word and corresponding with a second portion of the ambiguous input following the initial portion; identifying in the memory an alternate first language object representative of a third complete word and corresponding with an alternate initial portion of the ambiguous input and having a length equal to the length of the alternate initial portion; identifying in the memory an alternate second language object representative of a fourth complete word and corresponding with an alternate second portion of the ambiguous input following the alternate initial portion; and outputting a solution representative of the first language object and at least a portion of the second language object and an alternate solution representative of the alternate first language object and at least a portion of the alternate second language object.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising outputting the solution and the alternate solution in descending order of priority.