Looking for gPhone Clues in Google Patents

iced_tea writes "What do Google patents say about the company's possible plans for a Google phone? News.com took a look at some of the related technologies. Just one example: 'This image shows a diagram from a patent filed June 30, 2005 and published October 12, 2006, called "Non-Standard Locality-Based Text Entry." The inventor is listed as Shumeet Baluja, a senior staff research scientist at Google, and the assignee is listed as Google. The invention would allow an English speaker, for example, to use the keypad of any mobile phone to enter Chinese characters, according to Google patent scrutinizer Stephen Arnold.'"

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what department is that in?

[User 956]

according to Google patent scrutinizer Stephen Arnold.

Is that an actual job title these days, or is that just his hobby?

Re:what department is that in?

[CaptainPatent]

according to Google patent scrutinizer Stephen Arnold.

Is that an actual job title these days, or is that just his hobby? I thought it just meant he posts on /.

For the chinese symbol for "egg roll"

[Anonymous Coward]

Punch in 4 3 1 5 8 2 3 1 5 6 2 0 1 3 4

allow an English speaker...to enter Chinese chara

[Anonymous Coward]

you can do this very simply by pounding any key, Chinese will come up. Chinese speaker may not understand though.