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Pointer tool with touch-enabled precise placement

  • US 9,292,161 B2
  • Filed: 03/24/2010
  • Issued: 03/22/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/24/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

  • activating a pointer tool in a touch screen display in response to a contact with an area of the touch screen display to display the pointer tool, the pointer tool displayed independent of a location of text in a floating mode such that the pointer tool can be positioned in locations in which a cursor cannot be located, the pointer tool being independent of a location of the cursor and a position of the pointer tool is independent of the text, wherein, in the floating mode, the pointer tool moves in relation to the text without duplication or magnification of the text;

    when the pointer tool enters an area that is a predetermined distance relative to a possible cursor position in the text, automatically relocating the pointer tool to notch to the possible cursor position in the text, so as to transition from the floating mode to a notched mode wherein the pointer tool is dependent upon the text;

    persisting the displaying of the pointer tool in the touch screen display after the contact with the touch screen display is removed; and

    removing the pointer tool from the touch screen display in response to receiving editing data.

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