Automatically Reconfiguring an Input Interface

• US 20120192091A1
• Filed: 03/16/2012
• Published: 07/26/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Chen, Feng-wei, Hall, Joseph B., McHan, Samuel R. Jr.
• Granted Patent: US 10,764,130 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/765
• 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
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0816 the condition being an adaptation, e.g. in response to network events

Abstract

A method for providing an automatically reconfigurable input interface includes analyzing input received through an input interface of the computing device, determining a context based on the input; and reconfiguring the input interface to comprise a key based on a domain associated with the context. A computing system for providing automatic reconfiguration of an input interface includes a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The processor is configured to analyze input received through an input interface of a computing device, determine a context based on the input, and reconfigure the input interface to comprise a key based on a domain associated with the context.

Claims

1. A method for automatically reconfiguring an input interface, the method comprising:

with a physical computing device, analyzing input received through an input interface of said computing device;

with said physical computing device, determining a context based on said input; and

with said physical computing device, reconfiguring said input interface to comprise a key based on a domain associated with said context.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said context is a category of document selected from among a number of predetermined document categories.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein said domain is a group of words selected from a number of databases based on said context.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein said number of databases comprises a database that includes input previously entered by a user of said physical computing device that is sorted according to said predetermined document categories.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said domain is a group of words associated with a particular topic.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising, generating a layout of said input interface comprising said key based on parameters of said computing device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said key invokes a widget.

8. The method of claim 1, in which said key comprises a drop down menu.