Patent Document ID: 7817140
Application ID: 10930726

Base Claim:
1. A method of enabling input into a handheld electronic device, the handheld electronic device including an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a processor apparatus, the input apparatus including a number of input members, the number of input members including a selection input member and a number of linguistic input members, the selection input member being adapted to input a selection input upon being actuated, each linguistic input member of at least a portion of the number of linguistic input members having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto, the processor apparatus including a processor and a memory, the memory storing a plurality of word objects each corresponding to one of a plurality of stored words, the output apparatus including a display, the method comprising: detecting an input comprising a number of actuations of a number of the linguistic input members, at least some of which each having a plurality of linguistic elements assigned thereto and, responsive to each said actuation, displaying at a first location on the display a disambiguation of the input and at a second location on the display a plurality of outputs, at least one of the plurality of outputs comprising the disambiguation, and at least one of the plurality of outputs being an orphan prefix which consists of k linguistic elements, k being the quantity of actuations in the input, and wherein the orphan prefix is different from the first k characters in each of the plurality of stored words; detecting a number of actuations of the selection input member; and responsive to each said actuation of the selection input member, replacing the output at the first location on the display with another output of the plurality of outputs.

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Claim 6:
6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, after displaying the orphan prefix at the first location, detecting a next input comprising actuation of a next input member of the linguistic input members, locking the orphan prefix, and displaying at the second location a plurality of next outputs, each of the plurality of next outputs starting with the orphan prefix.