Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Simultaneous input across multiple applications
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Application No.: US12616667Application Date: 2009-11-11
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Publication No.: US08347215B2Publication Date: 2013-01-01
- Inventor: Curt Carpenter , Debora Everett , Doug Kramer , Derek E Sunday , Chris Whytock
- Applicant: Curt Carpenter , Debora Everett , Doug Kramer , Derek E Sunday , Chris Whytock
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
- Current Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Workman Nydegger
- Main IPC: G06F3/00
- IPC: G06F3/00 ; G06F3/048

Abstract:
One or more users may interact simultaneously with different applications on the same device through an input system such as a touch-sensitive display screen. Simultaneous user input may be detected by a multiple input system and subsequently transmitted to an application using a single transmission frame. An application corresponding to the user input is determined based on an input location of the user input and a location and size of a corresponding application. Simultaneous user inputs are rendered simultaneously by each corresponding application. Each application may further include a secondary event processing thread that runs in parallel to traditional operating system event threads. The secondary event processing thread bypasses sequential processing limits of an operating system event thread, providing substantially simultaneous processing of input.
Public/Granted literature
- US20100053110A1 SIMULTANEOUS INPUT ACROSS MULTIPLE APPLICATIONS Public/Granted day:2010-03-04
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