Suggest as you type for mobile devices? related patent filling by Google

Posted on March 13, 2007
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Looks like Google wants to do something pretty similar to suggest as you type for mobile devices. Obviously makes sense as you do have a more or less closed database of locations and business- types and names to build the suggest “dictionary” from.

Abstract:

A computer-implemented method of providing text entry assistance data includes receiving at a system location information associated with a user, receiving at the system information indicative of predictive textual outcomes, generating dictionary data using the location information, and providing the dictionary data to a remote device.

The full patent filling here

Well again this is probably just an intermediate step till voice recognition finally works on mobile devices …

Update >> Loren Baker on Searchenginejournal has a different / extended take on what this could be used for. Looks like in addition to use a finite database to generate the dictonary to “suggest” something, the location is taken into account to localize the suggestions based on your whereabout …

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