Patent Document ID: 7969415
Application ID: 11948645

Base Claim:
1. A method of enabling input into a handheld electronic device that comprises an input apparatus, an output apparatus, and a memory having stored therein a plurality of objects including a plurality of language objects, the input apparatus comprising a plurality of input members, at least some of the input members each having a plurality of characters assigned thereto, the method comprising: detecting an ambiguous input comprising a number of actuations of the input members; determining that one of the actuations is an actuation of an input member having assigned thereto a symbol from among a number of predetermined symbols; employing the one of the actuations as a delimiter input to delimit the actuations that precede the one of the actuations; and seeking a language object that corresponds with the delimited actuations that precede the one of the actuations.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising determining that no language object in the memory corresponds with the ambiguous input and, responsive thereto, initiating the determining that one of the actuations is an actuation of an input member having assigned thereto a symbol from among a number of predetermined symbols.