Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Jason Peter Sallinger

Russell Speight VanBlon

Jianbang Zhang

Joshua Neil Novak

John Weldon Nicholson

Grigori Zaitsev

Jon Wayne Heim

One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving, on a touch input device, user input; indentifying, using a processor, syntax in the user input; modifying, based on the identified syntax, the user input; and inserting, using a processor, the modified user input into a data field. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Identifying and modifying specific user input

One embodiment provides a method, including: presenting, on an input and display device, one or more input fields for an underlying application; detecting, using the input and display device, one or more handwriting input strokes provided to an input field overlay application; determining, using a processor, an input field targeting characteristic based on the one or more handwriting input strokes; selecting one of the one or more input fields as a target input field based on the input field targeting characteristic; and inserting a converted form of the one or more handwriting input strokes into the target input field. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Directing input of handwriting strokes

One embodiment provides a method, including: detecting, using a processor, an input method editor application is running on a device; detecting, using a processor, a data entry field is active; and responsive to detecting the input method editor application is running and the data entry field is active, suppressing, using a processor, an on screen keyboard from being displayed on a display device.

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Raleigh, NC, United States of America

Jason Peter Sallinger