RECORDING TOUCH INFORMATION

• US 20130139115A1
• Filed: 11/29/2011
• Published: 05/30/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 11/29/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Thiruvillamalai, Varadarajan (TSV), Dixit, Deepraj Sitaram, Sahoo, Tapas Ranjan, Reddy, Singireddy Neeraja
• Granted Patent: US 10,423,515 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/863
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3428 Benchmarking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3438 monitoring of user actions tracking the activity of the user H04L67/535
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3476 Data logging G06F11/14, G06F11/2205 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2201/865 Monitoring of software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures

Abstract

A method of recording user-driven events within a computing system includes receiving at a motion-sensitive display surface at least one user-performed gesture, which includes user movement of an object over the surface that recognizes such user interaction therewith. Touch information is generated corresponding to the at least one user-performed gesture. The touch information is configured to be provided to an application. The touch information is intercepted and recorded before it is provided to the application. The intercepted touch information is grouped into at least one chunk, and the at least one chunk is output to the application.

Claims

1. A method of recording user-driven events within a computing system, comprising:

receiving at a motion-sensitive display surface at least one user-performed gesture, which includes user movement of an object over the surface that recognizes such user interaction therewith;

generating touch information corresponding to the at least one user-performed gesture, the touch information configured to be provided to an application;

intercepting and recording the touch information before it is provided to the application;

grouping the intercepted touch information into at least one chunk; and

outputting the at least one chunk to the application.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the at least one chunk comprises a plurality of chunks, and wherein each of the chunks corresponds to a separate user-performed gesture.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the touch information comprises touch frames.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein intra-chunk timing of the touch frames in each chunk is maintained.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein timings between touch frames within each chunk are the same as timings between corresponding touch frames in the generated touch information.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein inter-chunk timings vary from corresponding timings in the generated touch information.

7. The method of claim 3, wherein inter-chunk timings vary from chunk to chunk.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the intercepting and recording the touch information, the grouping the intercepted touch information into at least one chunk, and the outputting the at least one chunk to the application is performed in a manner that prevents a user-perceptible delay.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the intercepting and recording the touch information, the grouping the intercepted touch information into at least one chunk, and the outputting the at least one chunk to the application is performed in less than about 150 milliseconds.

10. The method of claim 1, and further comprising:

outputting the generated touch information to a touch input stack; and

intercepting and recording the touch information from the touch input stack before it is provided to the application.

11. The method of claim 10, and further comprising:

outputting the at least one chunk to the touch input stack; and

outputting the at least one chunk from the touch input stack to the application.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the user-performed gesture includes at least one of tapping, touching, touching and holding for a specified time, sliding, waving, flicking or dragging.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein the object is at least one of a bodily appendage, writing utensil, or stylus.

14. A computer-readable storage medium storing computer-executable instructions that when executed by at least one processor cause the at least one processor to perform a method of recording user-driven events within a computing system, the method comprising:

receiving at a touch device having a motion-sensitive display surface at least one user-performed gesture, which includes user movement of an object over the surface that recognizes such user interaction therewith;

generating touch information with the touch device corresponding to the at least one user-performed gesture, the touch information configured to be provided to an application;

intercepting and recording the touch information before it is provided to the application;

grouping the intercepted touch information into at least one chunk; and

outputting the at least one chunk to the application.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the at least one chunk comprises a plurality of chunks, and wherein each of the chunks corresponds to a separate user-performed gesture.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 15, wherein the touch information comprises touch frames.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein intra-chunk timing of the touch frames in each chunk is maintained.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein inter-chunk timings vary from corresponding timings in the generated touch information.

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 18, wherein inter-chunk timings vary from chunk to chunk.

20. A method of recording user-driven events within a computing system, comprising:

receiving at a motion-sensitive display surface a plurality of user-performed gestures, which includes user movement of an object over the surface that recognizes such user interaction therewith;

generating touch frames corresponding to the user-performed gestures, the touch frames configured to be provided to an application;

intercepting and recording the touch frames before the touch frames are provided to the application;

grouping the intercepted touch frames into a plurality of chunks, wherein each chunk corresponds to one of the gestures; and

outputting the plurality of chunks to the application.