Touch event processing methods and apparatus for portable device with multiple operating systems

• US 9,310,926 B2
• Filed: 12/24/2013
• Issued: 04/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Chung, Seungmin
• Primary Examiner(s): Sternbane, Larry
• Application Number:
  US14/140,107
• Publication Number:
  US 20140191994A1
• Time in Patent Office: 840 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/53 by executing in a restricted environment, e.g. sandbox or secure virtual machine
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/74 operating in dual or compartmented mode, i.e. at least one secure mode
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0416 Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/468 Specific access rights for resources, e.g. using capability register
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/545 where tasks reside in different layers, e.g. user- and kernel-space

Abstract

A touch event processing method and a portable device implementing the same is provided for protecting a touch event occurring on a touch screen from hacking. Touch coordinates from a touch panel are first provided to the first operating system. It is then determined whether a function corresponding to the touch coordinates is to execute a security application. If so, a touch event processing right handover message is transmitted from the first operating system to the second, to hand over a right of processing a touch event that occurs on the touch panel to the second operating system.

Claims

1. A touch event processing method of a portable device having a first operating system and a second operating system, the method comprising:

receiving, by the first operating system, touch coordinates from a touch panel; and

if a function corresponding to the touch coordinates is to execute a security application, transmitting a touch event processing right handover message to the second operating system, for handover of a right of processing a touch event on the touch panel to the second operating system;

wherein the first operating system transmits, when the security application stops running, a touch event processing right withdrawal request message to the second operating system, and commands, when the touch event processing right handover message is received from the second operating system, a CPU to transmit the touch coordinates.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

determining, when an external event is detected, whether the second operating system has the touch event processing right;

transmitting, when the second operating system has the touch event processing right, a touch event processing right withdrawal request message from the first operating system to the second operating system; and

receiving, by the first operating system, another touch event processing right handover message from the second operating system.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising displaying an image related to the external event on a screen.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the image related to the external event is displayed on one of an image related to the security application and an area where no security application-related image is displayed.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

transmitting, when the security application stops running, a touch event processing right withdrawal request message to the second operating system; and

receiving, by the first operating system, another touch event processing right handover message from the second operating system.

6. A touch event processing method of a portable device having a first operating system and a second operating system, the method comprising:

receiving, at the second operating system, touch coordinates from a touch panel;

determining whether the touch coordinates are coordinates in a security image displayed on the touch panel; and

transmitting, when the touch coordinates are not the coordinates in the security image, a touch event processing right handover message for handover of a right of processing a touch event on the touch panel to the first operating system.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising transmitting, when the touch coordinates are not the coordinates in the security image, the touch coordinates to the first operating system.

8. A touch event processing method of a portable device having multiple operating systems, the method comprising:

receiving an interrupt from a touch panel;

determining an operating system having a right of processing a touch event among the multiple operating systems;

generating the interrupt to the operating system having the right of processing the touch event; and

transmitting touch coordinates to the operating system to which the interrupt was transmitted, in response to a touch coordinates request message received from the operating system.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

receiving a processing right change command message from the operating system to which the touch coordinates were transmitted; and

changing the operating system for processing the touch event in response to the processing right change command message.

10. A portable device comprising:

a touchscreen having a display panel and a touch panel;

a memory for storing a security application, a first operating system, and a second operating system; and

a Central Processing Unit (CPU) which accesses the memory to execute the first and second operating systems,

wherein the first operating system receives touch coordinates from the touch panel, and transmits, in response to a determination that a function corresponding to the touch coordinates is to execute a security application, a touch event processing right handover message for handover of a right of processing a touch event on the touch panel to the second operating system; and

wherein the first operating system transmits, when the security application stops running, a touch event processing right withdrawal request message to the second operating system, and commands, when the touch event processing right handover message is received from the second operating system, the CPU to transmit the touch coordinates.

11. The portable device of claim 10, wherein the first operating system determines, when an external event is detected, whether the second operating system has the touch event processing right, transmits, when the second operating system has the touch event processing right, a touch event processing right withdrawal request message to the second operating system, and commands, when the touch event processing right handover message is from the second operating system, the CPU to transmit the touch coordinates.

12. The portable device of claim 11, wherein an image related to the external event is displayed on the display panel.

13. The portable device of claim 12, wherein the image related to the external event is displayed on one of an image related to the security application and an area on the display panel where no security application-related image is displayed.

14. The portable device of claim 10, wherein an interrupt to the operating system having the right of processing the touch event is generated;

and the touch coordinates are transmitted to the operating system to which the interrupt was transmitted, in response to a touch coordinates request message received from the operating system.

15. The portable device of claim 14, comprising first and second driver sets, wherein the interrupt is provided to the first operating system via the first driver set when the first operating system has the touch event processing right, and the interrupt is provided to the second operating system via the second driver set when the second operating system has the touch event processing right.

16. The portable device of claim 15, wherein each of the firs and second driver sets includes a radio communication unit device driver to drive a radio communication unit of the portable device, the portable device transmitting through the radio communication unit driven by the radio communication unit device driver of the second operating system when the second operating system has the touch event processing right.

17. The portable device of claim 10, further comprising an operating system monitor, wherein the touch event processing right handover message is provided from the first operating system to the second operating system via the operating system monitor.

18. The portable device of claim 10, wherein the first operating system s a main operating system and the second operating system is a sub-operating system.