2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: in response to determining that the candidate partition of the next highest rank set of predicted input characters is unallocated, allocating the next highest rank set of predicted input characters to the candidate partition.
2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: in response to determining that the candidate partition of the next highest rank set of predicted input characters is unallocated, allocating the next highest rank set of predicted input characters to the candidate partition. 5. The method of claim 2 , wherein the sets of predicted input characters are displayed within a partition allocated thereto only when all partitions in the virtual keyboard have been allocated or no further next highest rank set of predicted input characters exists.