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Multi-touch interface gestures for keyboard and/or mouse inputs

  • US 9,639,186 B2
  • Filed: 01/31/2012
  • Issued: 05/02/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/30/2010
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of interpreting gestures made on a touch screen that is displaying a mouse-and-keyboard based user interface (UI), comprising:

  • receiving a press-and-hold event in combination with a tap event in response to gestures made on the touch screen, wherein the press-and-hold event is detected in response to a user placing and holding a finger in contact with the touch screen beyond a first threshold amount of time, and wherein the tap event occurs after the press-and-hold event is detected;

    translating the received events to a mouse right-click command responsive to determining that the press-and-hold event in combination with the tap event was performed in less than a second threshold of time and determining that a location of the tap event is greater than a threshold distance from the location of the press-and-hold event;

    transmitting the mouse right-click command to an operating system; and

    receiving from the operating system, in response to the transmitted mouse right-click command, an updated mouse-and-keyboard based UI.

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