Method, application and/or service to collect more fine-grained or extra event data from a user sensor device

• US 9,122,390 B2
• Filed: 04/19/2013
• Issued: 09/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/24/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Behaviometrics AB
• Original Assignee: Behaviometrics AB
• Inventors: Costigan, Neil, Deutschmann, Ingo, Libell, Tony, Lindholm, Johan, Nordstrm, Peder
• Primary Examiner(s): SALOMON, PHENUEL S
• Application Number:
  US13/866,190
• Publication Number:
  US 20130283201A1
• Time in Patent Office: 865 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04886 by partitioning the display area of the touch-screen or the surface of the digitising tablet into independently controllable areas, e.g. virtual keyboards or menus

Abstract

An apparatus with a method, and or application, and or service to collect more fine rained or extra event data, that may not be accessible directly by the underlying architecture. This is been done by adding a virtual overlay over selected portion of the screen and detecting events inside or outside of his own context.

Claims

1. A method for capturing events in a sensor device, the method comprising:

overlaying a virtual interface over an interface of an operating system of said sensor device, said virtual interface having a higher resolution than said interface of said operating system;

upon a user performing an action on said sensor device, running a background process associated with said virtual interface, said background process capturing events triggered by said action on said virtual interface at said higher resolution;

providing said captured events, captured at said higher resolution to a processing unit of said operating system; and

passing events to a foreground process running on said processor to respond to said action performed by said user based on said provided captured events;

wherein said overlaying comprises overlaying said virtual interface only over a portion of said interface of said operating system and

capturing comprises said virtual interface capturing events occurring outside an area covered by said virtual interface.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said virtual interface comprises a transparent interface layer overlaying said interface of said operating system, and said user action is carried out on an element of said interface of said operating system.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein said virtual interface comprises a Graphic User Interface (GUI) layer overlaying said interface of said operating system, and said user action is carried out on an element of said virtual interface.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said capturing events comprises said background process capturing events, sensed by said virtual interface, which events are not sensed by said interface of said operating system.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said captured events comprise timing and duration of said action.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said action comprises pressing a button of said interface of said operating system, and said captured events comprise a touch time of said button, a release time of said button, and a duration of said pressing.