Modified-QWERTY Letter Layout for Rapid Data Entry

Abstract

Data entry arrangements that include twenty-six letters of the Roman alphabet arranged in matrices including six rows of three to six letters per row and in five column matrices. The transposition of the letters of the Roman alphabet on a standard three-row QWERTY keyboard into six row matrices and five column matrices utilizes spacing between the letters wherein a vertical distance between adjacent letters is at least the same.

1 . A data entry interface arrangement including all twenty-six letters of a top, middle, and bottom row of a standard three-row QWERTY keyboard, comprising:
 a non-staggered, six-row array including a first set of two rows, a second set of two rows, and a third set of two rows, wherein said first set includes all letters in the top row of the QWERTY keyboard, said second set includes all letters in the middle row of the QWERTY keyboard, and said third set includes all letters in the bottom row of the QWERTY keyboard;   wherein the letters of each of the six rows are aligned vertically and   wherein at least one set of two rows is arranged in a layout comprising every other letter of a corresponding top, middle, or bottom row of said standard QWERTY keyboard.   
     
     
         2 . The data entry interface arrangement of  claim 1 , wherein said non-staggered, six-row array comprises: 
       
         
           
                 
                 
               
                     
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         3 . The data entry interface arrangement of  claim 1 , wherein said non-staggered, six-row array is manifested electronically upon a touch screen. 
     
     
         4 . The data entry interface arrangement of  claim 1 , wherein said non-staggered, six-row array is disposed upon a plurality of keys or buttons. 
     
     
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         19 . A data entry interface arrangement including all twenty-six letters of a top, middle, and bottom row of a standard three-row QWERTY keyboard, comprising an array that includes at least one set of two rows and five columns wherein at least rows one and two have vertically aligned buttons and at least two horizontally adjacent letters in the array are not horizontally adjacent in the standard three-row QWERTY keyboard. 
     
     
         20 . A method of forming a data entry interface, by modifying a reference keyboard layout that has at least 2 rows of letter keys in predetermined relation to each other, comprising creating a data entry interface of letter keys where each of the 2 rows of letter keys of the reference keyboard is replaced by a pair of rows of letter keys, by selecting every other letter of one of the 2 rows of the reference keyboard and forming the pair of rows in a configuration in which (a) one of the pairs of rows includes keys with the remaining letters from which the every other letters were selected and the other of the pair of rows includes keys with the selected every other letter of the row of the reference keyboard, and (b) each particular letter key of the other of the pair of rows is located vertically below a letter key of the one of the pair of rows that has a letter that was adjacent the particular letter in the reference keyboard layout.