Patent Document ID: 7809574
Application ID: 10950074
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A computerized method of performing word recognition comprising: receiving a word input signal containing non-textual user input representing a sequence of one or more words; performing word recognition upon the input signal to produce a choice list of best scoring recognition candidates, each comprised of a sequence of one or more words, found by the recognizer to have the best probability of corresponding to the input signal; producing a visual display representing a choice list of the best scoring recognition candidates, with the candidates being ordered in said choice list according to a character ordering of the sequence of characters corresponding to the one or more words associated with each candidate in the list; providing a user interface which enables a user to select one of the character-ordered recognition candidates from the choice list; and responding to user selection of one of the recognition candidates from the choice list by treating the selected candidate as the one or more words that correspond to the word input signal; wherein: the word recognition selects a single best scoring recognition candidate; and the single best scoring candidate is placed in a position in said user-perceivable output that is independent of where the character sequence corresponding to the one or more words associated with the single best scoring candidate would, according to said character ordering, fall in the character-ordered list; said choice list includes more recognition candidates than fit on the display at one time; the choice list is scrollable, so that a user can select to scroll the list relative to the display, so as to see more recognition candidates on the list than fit on the display at one time; said user interface includes one button that allows a user to select to scroll the visual display of the choice list up by multiple recognition candidates and one button that allows a user to select to scroll the visual display of the choice list down by multiple recognition candidates; and said user interface responds to a user selection of one of said two buttons by moving the display up or down, respectively, relative choice list by multiple recognition candidates, when there are multiple such candidates by which to move the display, independently of the current location of the display relative to said list.