IP Library Granted Patent US 9,009,031
Granted Patent B2
US 9,009,031 · App. 13/611,744 · Granted Apr 14, 2015

Analyzing a category of a candidate phrase to update from a server if a phrase category is not in a phrase database

Inventors: Xiaoxiao Li (Beijing, CN); Yanmin Xi (Beijing, CN)
Assignees: Sony Corporation; Sony Mobile Communications AB
G06F3/018G06F3/0237
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Patent No.
US 9,009,031
App. No.
13/611,744
Granted
Apr 14, 2015
Kind
B2
Abstract

The embodiments of the present invention provide an output method and electronic apparatus for a candidate phrase and an electronic apparatus. The method includes: analyzing, according to phrase categories in a phrase database, category of a phrase selected from a candidate input list that appeared after a user inputs a syllable, so as to judge whether the category of the phrase is contained in the phrase database; increasing the candidate priority of the category containing the phrase in a candidate input list, if the category of the phrase is contained in the phrase database; and transmitting the phase to a text input server, if the category of the phrase is not contained in the phrase database, so as to update the phrase categories in the phrase database according to an instruction from the text input server.

Claims (30)

1. An output method for candidate phrase, comprising:

analyzing, according to phrase categories in a phrase database, a category of a phrase selected from a candidate input list that appears after a user inputs a syllable, so as to judge whether the category of the phrase is contained in the phrase database;

increasing a candidate priority of the category containing the phrase in a candidate input list, if the category of the phrase is contained in the phrase database; and

transmitting the phrase to a text input server, if the category of the phrase is not contained in the phrase database, so as to update the phrase categories in the phrase database according to an instruction from the text input server.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

judging whether a first candidate phrase in the candidate input list is not selected more than a predefined number of times, and if it is not selected more than a predefined number of times, analyzing the category of the phrase selected from the candidate input list appeared after the user inputs a syllable.

3. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises:

analyzing the language practice of a target user and displaying the synonyms of the phrase at the first page of the candidate input list according to the language practice of the target user.

4. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the step of updating the phrase categories in the phrase database according to an instruction from the text input server comprises:

receiving an update instruction transmitted by the text input server;

downloading a phrase database from the text input server according to the update instruction; and

updating a local phrase database by using the phrase database downloaded from the text input server.

5. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the phrase database comprises any combination of the following categories of phrases:

network popular category, idiom category, biochemistry category, physics and mathematics category, and classical Chinese category.

6. An electronic apparatus, comprising:

a phrase database containing a plurality of phrase categories, each of the phrase categories containing a plurality of phrases having the same attribute;

a first analyzing unit for analyzing, according to the phrase categories in the phrase database, a category of a phrase selected from a candidate input list that appears after a user inputs a syllable, so as to judge whether the category of the phrase is contained in the phrase database;

an adjusting unit for increasing a candidate priority of the category containing the phrase in a candidate input list, when the analysis result of the first analyzing unit is that the category of the phrase is contained in the phrase database; and

an updating unit for transmitting the phrase to a text input server when the analysis result of the first analyzing unit is that the category of the phrase is not contained in the phrase database, so as to update the phrase categories in the database according to an instruction form the text input server.

7. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the electronic apparatus further comprises:

a judging unit for judging whether a first candidate phrase in the candidate input list is not selected more than a predefined number of times, and if it is not selected more than a predefined number of times, analyzing the category of the phrase selected from the candidate phrase list that appears after the user inputs a syllable by using the first analyzing unit.

8. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the electronic apparatus further comprises:

a second analyzing unit for analyzing the language practice of a target user; and

a displaying unit for displaying the synonyms of the phrase at the first page of the candidate input list, according to the language practice of the target user obtained by using the second analyzing unit.

9. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the updating unit comprises:

a transmitting module for transmitting uncategorized phrases to the text input server;

a receiving module for receiving an update instruction transmitted by the text input server; and

an updating module for downloading a phrase database from the text input server according to the update instruction, and updating the phrase categories in a local phrase database by using the phrase database downloaded from the text input server.

10. The electronic apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the phrase database comprises any combination of the following categories of phrases:

network popular category, idiom category, biochemistry category, physics and mathematics category, and classical Chinese category.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF PARTIAL INTEREST Recorded Mar 4, 2015
From: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
To: SONY CORPORATION; SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
Reel/Frame 035133/0158 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Feb 24, 2015
From: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
To: SONY MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
Reel/Frame 035074/0759 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 14, 2012
From: LI, XIAOXIAO; XI, YANMIN
To: SONY ERICSSON MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS AB
Reel/Frame 028960/0695 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 2011 1 0360215 · Nov 14, 2011 · national
Continuity (1)
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