US Patent Issued to NTT on Oct. 27 for "Predicting input candidates via an extended user interface" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,475, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).

"Predicting input candidates via an extended user interface" was invented by Hideaki Tanaka (Musashino, Japan), Taisuke Wakasugi (Musashino, Japan) and Masashi Tadokoro (Musashino, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A display control device extracts data similar to data input by a user from past data stored in a history DB using the results of data input when the user has completed inputting data up to predetermined input items of a Web system. After that, the display control device extracts, as input candidates, the result of data input to the input item corresponding to th...