Patent Document ID: 20050273332
Application ID: 10859445
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. A method of disambiguating an input into a handheld electronic device, the handheld electronic device including an input device, an output device, and a memory having a plurality of objects stored therein, the plurality of objects including a plurality of language objects and a plurality of frequency objects, each of at least a portion of the language objects of the plurality of language objects being associated with an associated frequency object of the plurality of frequency objects, the input device including a first input member and a plurality of second input members, each of at least a portion of the second input members of the plurality of second input members having a plurality of characters assigned thereto, one of the second input members of the plurality of second input members being a <NEXT> second input member and including a particular visual appearance, the <NEXT> second input member being adapted to provide a selection input, the method comprising: detecting an ambiguous input including a number of second input member actuations of a number of the second input members of the plurality of second input members, each of at least a portion of the second input members of the number of second input members including a number of characters assigned thereto, at least one of the second input members of the number of second input members having a plurality of characters assigned thereto; generating a number of prefix objects corresponding with the ambiguous input, each prefix object of the number of prefix objects including a number of the characters of the number of the second input members of the ambiguous input; for each prefix object of at least a portion of the number of prefix objects, seeking a corresponding language object of the plurality of language objects that corresponds with the prefix object; generating a result by, for each prefix object of at least a portion of the number of prefix objects, said at least a portion being a quantity of one of zero and greater than zero, identifying a language object of the plurality of language objects, the identified language object corresponding with the prefix object, obtaining an associated frequency object of the plurality of frequency objects, the associated frequency object being associated with the identified language object and having a frequency value, and associating the frequency value of the associated frequency object with the prefix object; outputting an output including a default portion and a variant portion, the output including at least a portion of the prefix objects of the result organized in descending order of frequency value; outputting a visual indicator representative of the visual appearance; and detecting a selection input from one of the first input member and the <NEXT> second input member indicating a selection of at least a portion of the variant output.