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.'"

Comments

Prior Art.

[arthurpaliden]

If that is truly what the patent is about then there is prior art, entering Jananeese characters via an English keyboard [Bailey Controls (Japan)], for it going back to the early 1980's.