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...that it was melting ice cream that inspired the invention of the outboard motor? It was a lovely August day and Ole Evinrude was rowing his boat to his favorite island picnic spot. As he rowed, he watched his ice cream melt and wished he had a faster way to get to the island. At that moment the idea for the outboard motor was born!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070271529 | Method of inputting letter in mobile terminal through extraction of proposed letter set Disclosed is a method of inputting letters in a mobile terminal by using letter keys each of which has at least one letter allocated thereto. In the method, after there is an input of at least two letter keys, first proposed letter sets are extracted from combinations o... | 11/22/2007 |
| 20070240044 | Handheld electronic device and method for performing spell checking during text entry and for integrating the output from such spell checking into the output from disambiguation A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with a disambiguation routine that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070240043 | Handheld electronic device and method for performing optimized spell checking during text entry by providing a sequentially ordered series of spell-check algorithms A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with a disambiguation routine that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and that... | 10/11/2007 |
| 20070226649 | METHOD FOR PREDICTIVE TYPING A method for suggesting possible completions for a typed text to a user of a device having a reduced keyboard. The possibilities include reference to external data, such as date, time, location and weather, or words related to the last continuation used in the same cont... | 09/27/2007 |
| 20070157123 | CHARACTER STRING PROCESSING METHOD, APPARATUS, AND PROGRAM In order to solve the above problem, disclosed as a first aspect is a method including the steps of analyzing a character string in a document into partial character strings; calculating, with respect to each of the partial character strings, a score incorporating appea... | 07/05/2007 |
| 20070157122 | Communication Terminal Having A Predictive Editor Application A communication terminal having a display; a keypad having a plurality of keys associated with several letters each; processor means controlling the display means in accordance with the operation of the keypad;a selectable predictive editor program for generating an out... | 07/05/2007 |
| 20070143675 | METHOD FOR ENTERING TEXT A method of providing selected text into a computer includes selecting a character in a range of characters and selecting a word as a function of the selected character. The word is presented to the user and an action is received from the user pertaining to the selected... | 06/21/2007 |
| 20070130507 | Method and System for Reducing the Horizontal Space Required for Displaying a Column Containing Text Data A method and system for reducing an amount of horizontal space required when displaying a plurality of columns on a display screen is disclosed. The at least one column of the plurality of columns has at least one entry containing text data. The method and system includ... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20070089070 | Communication device and method for inputting and predicting text A communication device comprising an input device for inputting text character-by-character from a sequence of characters, a memory device for storing a plurality of reference character sequences of characters and a prediction device for comparing individual ones of the... | 04/19/2007 |
| 20070074131 | DEVICE INCORPORATING IMPROVED TEXT INPUT MECHANISM A device including a display screen for displaying m-words of data, a text entry device for entering data, a processor receiving data from the text entry device and causing it to be displayed on the display screen. Upon activation the processor initializes a precursor t... | 03/29/2007 |
| 20060265648 | Electronic text input involving word completion functionality for predicting word candidates for partial word inputs A text input method is described for an electronic apparatus having a user interface with text input means and a display screen. Word completion functionality is provided for predicting word candidates for partial word inputs made by the user with the text input means. ... | 11/23/2006 |
| 20060206816 | Method of and device for predictive text editing A method of editing text data within a text-data string includes the steps of a) receiving a key stroke. The key stroke is received via one of a plurality of keys and at least one of the plurality of keys corresponds to a character group includes a plurality of characte... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060190819 | Communication terminal having a predictive text editor application A method of searching for records in a database matching the string of ambiguous key strokes received by the input means, said database includes a plurality of records containing at least two words, and comprises reception of information representing a string of ambiguo... | 08/24/2006 |
| 20060156233 | Predictive text input The invention relates to an electronic text inputting for an electronic device comprising at least the steps of providing alphanumeric user input, searching words from at least one dictionary on the basis of the provided alphanumeric user input, providing the words resu... | 07/13/2006 |
| 20060107210 | Text entry for mobile station A data input method in a mobile station comprises receiving first character input for a first word, the first character input for the first word associated with a first character of the first word. The method also comprises receiving total character input for the first ... | 05/18/2006 |
| 20060028450 | Finger activated reduced keyboard and a method for performing text input A reduced keyboard apparatus and method for use with small-sized communications and computing devices. Input via the keyboard is performed using fingers or thumbs. The keyboard is characterized by having no discrete boundaries between the included character spaces. The ... | 02/09/2006 |
| 20050283724 | Predictive text dictionary population A method and system for populating a predictive text dictionary is provided. A connection between a handheld electronic device and a network is detected. The handheld electronic device is operable to allow a user to enter text. The handheld electronic device has a predi... | 12/22/2005 |
| 20050268231 | Method and device for inputting Chinese phrases The present invention discloses A method for inputting a Chinese phrase on a portable device, said device comprising a keyboard, a display means and a memory means, said method comprising the steps of: inputting Chinese Pinyin letter/Zhuyin character and other character... | 12/01/2005 |
| 20050262443 | Word processing with artificial language validation Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, implementing techniques for word processing. The techniques include receiving a word processing document that includes natural language text, identifying in the word processing document a segment of artificial ... | 11/24/2005 |
| 20050257148 | Intelligent autofill The present invention provides a unique system and method that can employ machine learning techniques to automatically fill one or more fields across a diverse array of web forms. In particular, one or more instrumented tools can collect input or entries of form fields.... | 11/17/2005 |
| 20050210384 | MEMORY SYSTEM A memorization and accelerated learning system which greatly increases memorization and recall by organizing the text into steps, and causing words to disappear and reappear from step to step in a pattern which creates associations for every word in the text. The method... | 09/22/2005 |
| 20050188308 | Testing multi-byte data handling using multi-byte equivalents to single-byte characters in a test string A method and system for generating multi-byte equivalents based upon single byte source test data for use in testing a computer program. A method for testing multi-byte data handling can include the steps of converting each single byte native text character of a source ... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050114770 | Electronic device and user interface and input method therefor A portable electronic device (100,400) and user interface (425) are operated using a method including initiating entry of a content string; determining the most probable completion alternative or a content prediction using a personalized and learning datab... | 05/26/2005 |
| 20050034072 | Method and system for documenting and processing intellectual assets The method and system of the disclosure enable the creation of hand-written and electronic documentation as well as the processing of the created electronic document. The method simultaneously creates an electronic record of a hand-written document as the document is wr... | 02/10/2005 |
