Patent Document ID: 20050270269
Application ID: 11132479
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. Method for entering characters in a user interface of an electronic device, the user interface comprising: a display and an input device, the method comprising: predetermining a given character area on the display for each character, which character areas are in relation with each other in order to achieve a given character area pattern; detecting a start of a character entering function; detecting a starting point on the display on the basis of the detected start of the character entering function, the method further comprising: detecting the direction of movement indicated by the input device when the start of the character entering function has been detected; showing the character of the character area on the display towards which character area the direction of movement indicated by the input device is proceeding; detecting the termination of the character entering function; interpreting the character towards whose character area the direction of movement was last detected to proceed as the character to be entered next, when the termination of the character entering function is detected.