METHOD OF LEARNING A CONTEXT OF A SEGMENT OF TEXT, AND ASSOCIATED HANDHELD ELECTRONIC DEVICE

摘要

An improved method of learning a context of a segment of text input enabl es facilitated text input on an improved handheld electronic device. In resp onse to a series of inputs, segments and other objects are analyzed to gener ate a proposed character interpretation of the series of inputs. Responsive to detecting a replacement of a segment of the character interpretation with another segment, a combination object comprising the another segment and a preceding object is stored. In response to another series of inputs, the com bination object can be employed by a processing algorithm to ascertain a pre ference for the another segment in the context of the preceding object of th e combination object.