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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180938 | Method, system, and computer program product for automatic learning of software keyboard input characteristics A method for automatic learning of software keyboard input characteristics includes the following steps. (a) An input is received. (b) Whether the input is a normal key input is determined. (c) The input value of the input is stored when the input is determined to b... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8140722 | Mobile terminal, character conversion apparatus, character conversion process, computer program, and computer usable medium A character conversion apparatus makes a predictive search of a conversion database for conversion candidates on the basis of one or more characters inputted by use of a character input key. The apparatus obtains, in reference to a table, the total number of times t... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8122170 | Adaptive keyboard layout mapping A method for processing keystrokes is described herein. A first keystroke representing a symbol for a first operating system may be received on a first computer. The first keystroke may be translated to a second keystroke representing the symbol for a second operati... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8074000 | Hotkey processing method and computer system A key processing method for use in a computer system having at least one BIOS (basic input output system) and one controller is disclosed. The method comprises the following steps. After a predetermined time period, it is first determined whether a specific hotkey h... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8065453 | Handheld electronic device and associated method employing a multiple-axis input device and learning a context of a text input for use by a disambiguation routine A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software that is operable to disambiguate text input. In addition to identifying and outputting representations of language objects that are stored in the memory and t... | 11/22/2011 |
| 7991929 | System and method for recognizing a keystroke in an electronic device The disclosure provides a system and a method of processing keystrokes entered on an electronic device. The method comprises: monitoring for activation of two or more keys on the keyboard; evaluating whether the activation of those keys occurs within a set window of... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7979612 | Communication method and apparatus A communication method allows a host to access and send commands to an apparatus across a network or communication system by encoding data as a sequence of status signals and sending the data from the host on a communication channel between the host and an auxiliary... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7949807 | Data conversion apparatus and data conversion method It is aimed, for example, to reduce an amount of power consumption of an operation concerning data encryption or decryption and to make it difficult to perform a power analysis. In the case an exclusive OR operation between 32-bit input data and a 32-bit key is perf... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7941580 | Apparatus and methods for providing keypress commands and directional commands to a mobile computing device Various embodiments for providing directional commands for a mobile computing device are described. In one or more embodiments, a mobile computing device may comprise a keypad arranged to operate in multiple modes including a standard mode and a directional mode suc... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7849240 | Methods and systems of scanning an input device having multiple key switches A method of having multiple devices share a circuit's input/output (I/O) terminals includes applying first and second input signals to first and second I/O terminals to generate first and second output signals at the second and first I/O terminals, respectively. The... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7827329 | Character interactive input/output A system and method for supporting character interactive input/output operation in a half-duplex block-mode environment including a workstation and a server. Keystrokes at the workstation received into an auto enter, non-display entity on the workstation display are... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7809867 | Keypad de-bouncing apparatus and method An apparatus and method for de-bouncing keypad inputs is disclosed including interrupting a processor upon detecting a key press, reading input signals from the key pad to determine an initial port value and starting a timer. A keypad interrupt is disabled and proce... | 10/05/2010 |
| 7774524 | Adaptive multitap timeout A communication device may receive successive key inputs, determine an average time duration between successive key inputs, start a timeout, determine if a timeout was successful and adjust the timeout period based on the determined success of the timeout. ... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7765345 | Handheld electronic device and associated method employing a multiple-axis input device and providing text disambiguation A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood tha... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7743188 | Method and apparatus for accessing a contacts database and telephone services Embodiments described herein provide a method and technique for operating a computing device. An interface is displayed for enabling the computing device to control a voicemail system. The interface includes one or more display objects, wherein each display object i... | 06/22/2010 |
| 7739431 | Keystroke monitoring apparatus and method Keystrokes input by a user are stored in non-volatile memory together with time stamps, creating a record of keystrokes and associated time stamps. At least some of the time stamps are generated and recorded in response to receipt of specific keystroke events, such ... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7644209 | Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation allowing dynamic expansion of input key associations A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon frequency of use, but some variants are... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7594050 | System and method for recognizing a keystroke in an electronic device The invention provides a system and a method of processing keystrokes being entered in an electronic device. The method comprises: monitoring for activation of two or more keys on the device; determining whether a keystroke conflict occurs from the activation of the... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7581047 | Usage of keyboard driver in extensible firmware interface for adding new hot keys at firmware level A hot key register request is created in an extensible firmware interface application, the hot key register request has a key number and a pointer to a hot key function for the new hot key. The hot key register request is sent to a keyboard driver in the extensible ... | 08/25/2009 |
| 7539795 | Methods and apparatus for implementing dynamic shortcuts both for rapidly accessing web content and application program windows and for establishing context-based user environments The invention disclosed herein concerns methods and apparatus for implementing dynamic shortcuts for use in navigating web content and application program windows. In particular, the methods and apparatus of the invention allow a user to associate one or more items ... | 05/26/2009 |
| 7519748 | Stroke-based data entry device, system, and method A data entry system comprising of: an input surface, a limited number of input elements of any shape and positions at the input surface, and a processing device (for detecting a continuous sweeps of an input object over the input surface, for tracking a sequence of ... | 04/14/2009 |
| 7441057 | System and method for providing character interactive input/output A system and method for supporting character interactive input/output operation in a half-duplex block-mode environment including a workstation and a server. Keystrokes at the workstation received into an auto enter, non-display entity on the workstation display are... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7427933 | Data entry device A self-service terminal alphanumeric data entry device comprises a multi-button input device and processing circuitry comprising a letter selector. At least one of the buttons is associated with a number and with at least two alphabetic letters. The input device is ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7370288 | Method and system for selecting objects on a display device Different levels or categories of text or images or both can be selected on a display device with simple commands. A selection region including one of selected text and selected images can be increased or decreased depending upon an executed command. A first command... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7362243 | Apparatus and method using color-coded or pattern-coded keys in two-key input per character text entry Letters (more generally, language symbols) are entered electronically by selecting, in sequential fashion, two keys on a standard phone layout. The first key in the two-key sequence is that key on which the desired letter is displayed. The keys and the letters displ... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7362244 | User programmable input apparatus with a keyboard A user programmable input apparatus with a keyboard comprises several keys with one or more special keys thereof on the keyboard for input operations, a microprocessor to receive inputs from the keys when they are pressed, a nonvolatile memory programmable by operat... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359999 | Inputting method and device with a flat input having sensor capable of coordinate touch input wherein display is switchable based on touch pressure An input device includes a flat first input unit for a first input operation, a second input unit for a second input operation, a display unit having a display portion displaying data, and a control unit controlling each unit. The control unit gives an operator feed... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7356626 | Method and device for signal protection Method for decreasing the existence of externally detectable revealing signals, so-called {umlaut over (R)}ÖS, from keyboards (1), e.g. for computers, where the keyboard is fed with signals, so-called matrix signals, which are detected for detection of activ... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7342930 | Communication equipment, communication system, and communication method A communication equipment comprises a reception/transmission unit configured to notify a target equipment of a plurality of addresses provided for the communication equipment, acquire a plurality of target equipment addresses provided for the target equipment, from ... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7337254 | Information processing system and method of controlling the same An information processing system operating in response to a remote control signal transmitted from a remote controller, the information processing system including a remote signal receiver to receive the remote control signal; an interrupt generator to generate a sy... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333085 | Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood tha... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7334067 | Programmable controller having reduced control key set In some embodiments, a wall-mountable, programmable controller having control keys (e.g., less than eight keys or another small number of keys), a subassembly including circuitry, and a control key insert removably mountable to the subassembly and including at least... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328430 | Method for analyzing data and performing lexical analysis A system and method provide the ability to construct lexical analyzers on the fly in an efficient and pervasive manner. The system and method split the table describing the automata into two distinct tables and splits the lexical analyzer into two phases, one for ea... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7328031 | Message exchange handling concept A message exchange session between wireless communication terminals via a wireless network is initiated from one of the terminals. The user of the initiating terminal invites at least one other communication terminal to participate in the message exchange session. T... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324083 | Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation A handheld electronic device includes a reduced QWERTY keyboard and is enabled with disambiguation software. The device provides output in the form of a default output and a number of variants. The output is based largely upon the frequency, i.e., the likelihood tha... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7318019 | Word output device and matrix keyboard for use therein A keyboard utilizing a matrix arrangement of word, character, numerical (print medium) keys to enhance a standard print medium keyboard. Instead of utilizing keys with letters and numbers, and instead of utilizing iconic symbols (or for use in combination with iconi... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7299309 | Method and apparatus for protocol and code converter Apparatus and method for converting protocol and code for use with a Human Interface Device (HID)-compliant keyboard device comprises a Universal Serial Bus (USB) interface, non-USB interface and a converter. The USB interface receives standard USB data from an USB ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7293231 | Data entry for personal computing devices In one aspect of the invention, the user can rapidly enter and search for text through a combination of entering one or more characters (a partial text entry) on a digitally displayed keyboard with a pointing device and using a search list to display a list of selec... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7287921 | Key array of keyboard A key array for a keyboard is provided having an input key section including a plurality of input keys. Each input key has a left key part, a central key part, and a right key part. A left control key is positioned on a left side of the input key section so as to co... | 10/30/2007 |
| 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 |
