Patent Document ID: 9069446
Application ID: 14160306
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A system of selecting a primary input method from a plurality of input methods, each input method defines how input from a human interface device is interpreted by a receiving application on a computing processing system, comprising: an input method portfolio having the plurality of input methods, each input method having one or more input method factors, an input method factor determines affinity of a user profile from a prior session for the input method for a certain language used; an input method daemon configured to: determine a numerical score for one or more input method factors in the input method portfolio using a metric of the input method factor and a weight of the input method factor; rank the input methods in the input method portfolio as a function of the numerical score of the input method factor; present a user selection interface that lists the plurality of input methods in the input method portfolio as a function of the rank, wherein the input method portfolio has a cutoff; determine whether there is a stale input method in the input method portfolio, the stale input method is an input method that is unlikely to be presented, wherein the stale input method is not accessed for a particular time; highlight, visually, the stale input method in the user selection interface; and remove the stale input method from the input method portfolio.