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Mark Vulfson

Robert D Young

Daniel M Sangster

Scott Robert Honji

Kevin John Smith

Eric Boller Fleegal

Richard Shailer Turner, Jr

Xianfeng Tian

Richard Turner

A computing system includes one or more input-device user-interface runtime applications to dynamically display images on a dynamic input device. The one or more input-device user-interface runtime applications are executed in a currently active desktop. The computing system further includes a dominant application configured to execute in the currently active desktop. The dominant application is configured to specify an input-device user-interface runtime application corresponding to a current context of the dominant application. The specified input-device user-interface runtime application is configured to dynamically display virtual controls on the dynamic input device. The specified input-device user-interface runtime application is also configured to report activation of the virtual controls to the dominant application.

Contextual control of dynamic input device

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