Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Alan Stephenson

Reed L Townsend

Uros Batricevic

Aleksandar Uzelac

Joyce Wu

Pamela De La Torre Baltierra

Brian Wheeler

Robert J Jarrett

David Abzarian

Bret P Anderson

Christopher Doan

Stephen Harry Wright

Lawrence William Osterman

Hirofumi Yamamoto

Jacob Rossi

Michael Nelte

Silvano Bonacina

Krishnan Menon

Raju Ramanathan

Steven James Frederickson

Changsin Lee

Michael Seibert

Steven Welch

Pak Kiu Chung

Techniques relating to scrolling, object selection, and object moving are discussed. Strokes are inputted by a user, for instance using a touch sensitive surface. Strokes are directed to a scrollable surface with objects therein. Strokes that end before meeting a condition select the objects, and strokes then end after meeting the condition move the objects or representations thereof. The condition may be a distance. Selection may only occur when strokes meet a threshold condition such as having a particular direction (e.g., perpendicular to a direction for scrolling the surface) or moving a minimal distance. Strokes in a scrolling direction (e.g., horizontal) may scroll the surface in that direction and strokes in another direction (e.g., vertical) may both select and move the objects. Objects selected may slide on rails before moving.

Cross slide gesture

The techniques described herein are directed to receiving parameters directed to correcting spatial error and/or jitter associated with an interaction device connected to a computing device. In some instances, the parameters are encrypted parameters that may be decrypted and consumed to correct the spatial error and/or the jitter associated with the interaction device. For instance, the parameters may provide an adjustment to one or more reported positions of input received from a detection area of the interaction device, so that a display position more accurately reflects, based on the adjustment, an actual position of input on the detection area of the interaction device.

Interaction device corrective parameters

Systems and methods of blocking, ignoring, suspending, or otherwise altering edge-related UI gestures on touch-sensitive computing devices or on non-touch sensitive computing devices having active edge I/O commands in certain situations are disclosed. In one embodiment, a second UI gesture coming from an outside edge may be altered after a first UI gesture from a user using an running application under certain conditions&#x2014;e.g., if the second UI gesture is made within a certain time period after the first UI gesture, the second UI gesture is made within a certain proximity of the first UI gesture, etc. In another embodiment, a computing device is disclosed that comprises a controller, a display screen and an operating system that alters certain edge-related UI gestures that might be made by an operating system if, e.g., certain conditions are present.

Dynamic management of edge inputs by users on a touch device

In one embodiment, a unified pointer messagemay describe in a single type of pointer message a coordinate input from a user via multiple types of pointer devices. An input device interfacemay receive a coordinate inputfrom an input device. A processormay execute an application programming interface layerthat creates a unified pointer messagefor the coordinate input. The processormay send the unified pointer messageto an application. The processormay process a device specific data setunhandled by the application.

Device specific data in a unified pointer message

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Alan Stephenson