Handheld electronic device with text disambiguation

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A handheld electronic device with a reduced QWERTY keyboard and disambiguation software. As a user enters keystrokes, the device outputs a default output and a number of variants from which a user can choose. The output is based largely upon the likelihood that a user intended a particular output but various , features of the device provide additional variants provided by various logic structures resident on the device. The device enables editing during text entry, and when initiating an activity session on a word such as during editing, the display outputs variants of the entire word being edited rather , than providing as variants only those parts of a word that are being edited. …