FUZZY KEYBOARD

Patent №

US 6,654,733

Granted

2003-11-25

Filed 2000

Owner

MICROSOFT CORP.

AI components

4

ml · nlp · kr · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

09484095

Fuzzy keyboards, to determine a most-likely-to-be-intended keystroke or keystrokes, are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method adds each of one or more keys to each of a current list of key sequence hypotheses, to create a new list of key sequence hypotheses. The method determines a likelihood probability for each hypothesis in the new list, and removes any hypothesis failing to satisfy any of one or more thresholds. The most likely key sequence of the new list may then be displayed. Some embodiments of the invention relate specifically to soft keyboards, while other embodiments relate specifically to real, physical and hard keyboards.

AI classification

Machine learning1.00
Natural language1.00
Knowledge representation0.88
AI hardware0.73
Planning0.10
Evolutionary computation0.08
Speech0.00
Vision0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORP.

assignment · 105560821

Assignors

GOODMAN, JOSHUA, VENOLIA, DANIEL, HUANG, XUEDONG

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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