Character string selecting method for e.g. mobile telephone, involves inputting character by user, reducing subset to another subset, and incrementing counter by one when string in list is not uniquely identified by computing device

摘要

The method involves setting a first subset S[0] to be equal to S, where S represents a list of character strings. A counter i is set to be equal to one, where i is an integer. A character is input by a user, a second subset S[i-1]is reduced to a third subset S[i], and the counter is incremented by one using a computing device when one of the character strings in the list is not identified by the computing device in a unique manner. An independent claim is also included for a computing device comprising a microprocessor.