Assignee: Tegic Communications, Inc.

Location: Seattle, WA
No. of patents: 29

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8103499	Disambiguation of telephone style key presses to yield Chinese text using segmentation and selective shifting To enter Chinese text, a user enters the corresponding phonetic spelling via telephone style keypad. Some or all keys represent multiple phonetic letters. In disambiguating entered key presses to yield a valid phonetic spelling, a computer divides the key presses in...	01/24/2012
8095364	Multimodal disambiguation of speech recognition The present invention provides a speech recognition system combined with one or more alternate input modalities to ensure efficient and accurate text input. The speech recognition system achieves less than perfect accuracy due to limited processing power, environmen...	01/10/2012
7966003	Disambiguating ambiguous characters In one general sense, information may be presented to a user by receiving one or more ambiguous characters that may be resolved to one of at least two disambiguated characters, exchanging at least one of the ambiguous characters with a host, receiving, from the host...	06/21/2011
7920132	Virtual keyboard system with automatic correction There is disclosed an enhanced text entry system which determines one or more alternate textual interpretations of each sequence of inputs detected within a designated auto-correcting keyboard region. The actual contact locations for the keystrokes may occur outside...	04/05/2011
7881936	Multimodal disambiguation of speech recognition The present invention provides a speech recognition system combined with one or more alternate input modalities to ensure efficient and accurate text input. The speech recognition system achieves less than perfect accuracy due to limited processing power, environmen...	02/01/2011
7880730	Keyboard system with automatic correction There is disclosed an enhanced text entry system which determines one or more alternate textual interpretations of each sequence of inputs detected within a designated auto-correcting keyboard region. The actual contact locations for the keystrokes may occur outside...	02/01/2011
7821503	Touch screen and graphical user interface A selective input system and associated method is provided which tracks the motion of a pointing device over a region or area. The pointing device can be a touchpad, a mouse, a pen, or any device capable of providing two or three-dimensional location. The region or ...	10/26/2010
7778818	Directional input system with automatic correction A system associated with a text entry application, such as email or instant messaging, comprises an optional onscreen representation of a circular keyboard, a list of potential linguistic object matches, and a message area where the selected words are entered. The c...	08/17/2010
7750891	Selective input system based on tracking of motion parameters of an input device A selective input system and associated method is provided which tracks the motion of a pointing device over a region or area. The pointing device can be a touchpad, a mouse, a pen, or any device capable of providing two or three-dimensional location. The region or ...	07/06/2010
7720682	Method and apparatus utilizing voice input to resolve ambiguous manually entered text input From a text entry tool, a digital data processing device receives inherently ambiguous user input. Independent of any other user input, the device interprets the received user input against a vocabulary to yield candidates such as words (of which the user input form...	05/18/2010
7712053	Explicit character filtering of ambiguous text entry The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for explicit filtering in ambiguous text entry. The invention provides embodiments including various explicit text entry methodologies, such as 2-key and long pressing. The invention also provides means for mat...	05/04/2010
7679534	Contextual prediction of user words and user actions The invention concerns user entry of information into a system with an input device. A scheme is provided in which an entire word that a user wants to enter is predicted after the user enters a specific symbol, such as a space character. If the user presses an ambig...	03/16/2010
7636083	Method and apparatus for text input in various languages A method and apparatus for facilitating text input for network applications, such as, for example, wireless applications, are described. Multiple input signals are received from a user, each input signal corresponding to a key within a user input interface and furth...	12/22/2009
7610194	Dynamic database reordering system A dynamic database reordering system provides a linguistics database that contains words that are ordered according to a linguistics model that dictates the order in which words are presented to a user. While a user enters keystrokes on a keypad of a communications ...	10/27/2009
7587378	Embedded rule engine for rendering text and other applications A computing apparatus includes a display to present human-readable information and a user input facility. A rule data store contains a statement of rules governing prescribed aspects of presenting data upon the display. These aspects include those aspects subject to...	09/08/2009
7580925	Efficient storage and search of word lists and other text A computer readable storage medium tangibly embodying machine-readable digital data arranged to facilitate expedited searching. The data includes a plurality of words residing in a table having rows and columns, each word residing in a different row and each letter ...	08/25/2009
7580829	Apparatus and method for reordering of multiple language databases for text disambiguation The invention provides a process for selecting and ordering one or more sets of linguistic objects. The invention orders a current list of items for selection that comprises a first list of one or more items of a first language and a second list of one or more items...	08/25/2009
7395203	System and method for disambiguating phonetic input A system and method for inputting Chinese characters using Pinyin without requiring the entry of a delimiter key between Pinyin entries in a reduced keyboard is disclosed. The system searches for all possible single or multiple Pinyin spellings based on the entered ...	07/01/2008
7319957	Handwriting and voice input with automatic correction A hybrid approach to improve handwriting recognition and voice recognition in data process systems is disclosed. In one embodiment, a front end is used to recognize strokes, characters and/or phonemes. The front end returns candidates with relative or absolute proba...	01/15/2008
7286115	Directional input system with automatic correction A system associated with a text entry application, such as email or instant messaging, comprises an optional onscreen representation of a circular keyboard, a list of potential linguistic object matches, and a message area where the selected words are entered. The c...	10/23/2007
7277088	Keyboard system with automatic correction A method and system are defined which determine one or more alternate textual interpretations of each sequence of inputs detected within a designated auto-correcting keyboard region. The actual contact locations for the keystrokes may occur outside the boundaries of...	10/02/2007
7218781	System and method for chinese input using a joystick A Chinese text entry system and method is provided to allow users to enter a character to a device such as a cellular phone or a PDA by adding a first few strokes required for the character using a joystick or its equivalent. By simply moving the joystick to add one...	05/15/2007
6307548	Reduced keyboard disambiguating system A reduced keyboard disambiguating system. The keyboard has twelve to sixteen keys, nine of them labeled with numerous letters and other symbols, and those nine plus one more are associated each with one of the ten digits. Textual entry keystrokes are ambi...	10/23/2001
6307549	Reduced keyboard disambiguating system A reduced keyboard disambiguating system (50) having a keyboard (54) with a reduced number of keys. A plurality of letters and symbols are assigned to a set of data keys (56) so that keystrokes entered by a user are ambiguous. Due to the ambiguity in each...	10/23/2001
6286064	Reduced keyboard and method for simultaneous ambiguous and unambiguous text input A reduced keyboard disambiguating system. The keyboard has twelve keys, nine of them labeled with numerous letters and other symbols, and those nine plus one more are labeled each with one of the ten digits. Textual entry keystrokes are ambiguous. The use...	09/04/2001
6011554	Reduced keyboard disambiguating system A reduced keyboard disambiguating system (50) having a keyboard (54) with a reduced number of keys. A plurality of letters and symbols are assigned to a set of data keys (56) so that keystrokes entered by a user are ambiguous. Due to the ambiguity in each...	01/04/2000
5953541	Disambiguating system for disambiguating ambiguous input sequences by displaying objects associated with the generated input sequences in the order of decreasing frequency of use A reduced keyboard disambiguating system. The keyboard has twelve keys, nine of them labeled with numerous letters and other symbols, and those nine plus one more are labeled each with one of the ten digits. Textual entry keystrokes are ambiguous. The use...	09/14/1999
5945928	Reduced keyboard disambiguating system for the Korean language A reduced keyboard disambiguating system for the Korean language using word-level disambiguation to resolve ambiguities in keystrokes. A plurality of letters are assigned to each of a plurality of data keys, so that keystrokes on these keys are ambiguous....	08/31/1999
5818437	Reduced keyboard disambiguating computer A reduced keyboard disambiguating computer. The keyboard has twelve keys, nine of them labeled with numerous letters and other symbols, and those nine plus one more are labeled each with one of the ten digits. Textual entry keystrokes are ambiguous. The u...	10/06/1998

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