Event Handling In An Integrated Execution Environment

• US 20130009986A1
• Filed: 09/14/2012
• Published: 01/10/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/27/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Adobe Inc.
• Original Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe Inc.)
• Inventors: Shah, Rishit, Chanda, Rupen, Balakrishnan, Govind, Flores, Antonio
• Granted Patent: US 8,713,210 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/619
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for handling input received from a common interface of a program and a runtime environment when both the program and the runtime environment are configured to consume the received input. Given that both a browser program and a media player program hosted by the browser program are configured to detect an event of a certain type, there may be a contention of whether the browser program or the media player program may act first on the detected event. The disclosed systems and techniques enable interpretation of a user'"'"'s intent when the user interacts with a webpage hosting media content and when the user'"'"'s input occurs over media content rendered by the media player program. Similar advantages may also be realized within the context of another execution environment, or other program, different than a browser program.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

receiving, at a first program that renders content of a first content type, input from a computing device interface associated with a second program that renders content of a second content type, such that the content of the first type and the content of the second type are rendered concurrently to the computing device interface;

determining an input type of the received input;

switching the first program from a first input mode to a second input mode when the received input is of a first input type; and

switching the first program from the second input mode to the first input mode when the received input is of a second input type,

wherein the content of the first content type and the content of the second content type remain concurrently rendered to the computing device interface after switching the first program between the first and second input modes.

2. The method of claim 1, where the determining comprises:

determining the received input to be of the first input type when the received input is a single input associated with content of the first content type; and

determining the received input to be of the second input type when the received input is a single input unassociated with content of the first content type.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

allowing the second program to handle the received input when the received input is of a third input type and the first program is in the first input mode; and

handling the received input when the received input is of the third input type and the first program is in the second input mode.

4. The method of claim 3, where the determining comprises determining the received input to be of the third input type when the received input is associated with content of the first content type and is different from the single input associated with content of the first content type.

5. The method of claim 3, where the receiving comprises getting the received input from a touchscreen of a mobile device, and the first program is a media player program that operates within the second program.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein

the touchscreen comprises a multi-touch device, and

the third input type is associated with the first content type rendered by the media player program, and comprises multiple subtypes including a double tap and a multi-touch input.

7. The method of claim 1, where the second program is a browser program.

8. A system comprising:

a storage device including a first program that renders content of a first content type and a second program that renders content of a second content type; and

one or more hardware processors configured to interact with a touchscreen device, execute the first and second programs and perform operations comprising;

concurrently rendering the content of the first type and the content of the second type to the touchscreen device;

receiving, by the first program, input from the touchscreen device;

determining an input type of the received input;

switching the first program from a first input mode to a second input mode when the received input is of a first input type; and

switching the first program from the second input mode to the first input mode when the received input is of a second input type,

wherein the content of the first content type and the content of the second content type remain concurrently rendered to the touchscreen device after switching the first program between the first and second input modes.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the operation of determining comprises:

determining the received input to be of the first input type when the received input is a single input associated with content of the first content type; and

determining the received input to be of the second input type when the received input is a single input unassociated with content of the first content type.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise:

allowing the second program to handle the received input when the received input is of a third input type and the first program is in the first input mode; and

handling the received input when the received input is of the third input type and the first program is in the second input mode.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the operation of determining comprises determining the received input to be of the third input type when the received input is associated with content of the first content type and is different from the single input associated with content of the first content type.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein:

the first program is a media player program that operates within the second program, and

the operation of receiving comprises getting the received input from the touchscreen device.

13. The system of claim 12, wherein:

the touchscreen comprises a multi-touch device, and

the third input type comprises multiple subtypes including a double tap and a multi-touch input.

14. The system of claim 8, wherein the second program is a browser program.

15. A non-transitory computer storage medium encoded with a computer program, the program comprising instructions that when executed by data processing apparatus cause the data processing apparatus to perform operations comprising:

receiving, at a first program that renders content of a first content type, input from a computing device interface associated with a second program that renders content of a second content type, such that the content of the first type and the content of the second type are rendered concurrently to the computing device interface;

determining an input type of the received input;

switching the first program from a first input mode to a second input mode when the received input is of a first input type; and

switching the first program from the second input mode to the first input mode when the received input is of a second input type,

wherein the content of the first content type and the content of the second content type remain concurrently rendered to the computing device interface after switching the first program between the first and second input modes.

16. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 15, wherein the operation of determining comprises:

determining the received input to be of the first input type when the received input is a single input associated with content of the first content type; and

determining the received input to be of the second input type when the received input is a single input unassociated with content of the first content type.

17. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 16, wherein the operations further comprise:

allowing the second program to handle the received input when the received input is of a third input type and the first program is in the first input mode; and

handling the received input when the received input is of the third input type and the first program is in the second input mode.

18. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 17, wherein operation of determining comprises determining the received input to be of the third input type when the received input is associated with content of the first content type and is different from the single input associated with content of the first content type.

19. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 17, wherein the operation of receiving comprises getting the received input from a touchscreen of a mobile device, wherein the first program is a media player program that operates within the second program.

20. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 19, wherein the touchscreen comprises a multi-touch device and the third input type comprises multiple subtypes including a double tap and a multi-touch input.

21. The non-transitory computer storage medium of claim 15, wherein the second program is a browser program.