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Mobile client computer programmed to predict input

US5864340A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateAug 22, 1996
Grant dateJan 26, 1999
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Expiry dateAug 22, 2016

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06F40/274
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

058643404 A computer system preferably a mobile client computer, optimizes data handling and display through the use of predictive widgets. A predictive widget uses a predictive list of possible entries into a defined field of a form, as in a form filling application, to provide one or both of a predictive default entry for a field or a predictive fill once a user has started an entry into the field.

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