Dell Products Inc.

Dell & Products L.p.

Nidhi Palan

Dewey Yu

Andrew T Fausak

Nicholas G DiLoreto

Keith M Alfano

Yongook Guack

A portable information handling system includes a touch function row between a keyboard and a display that accepts touches at plural locations to initiate an on-screen-display user interface for a selected of plural functions based upon a touch location. A sliding movement at the touch function row commands presentation of plural function input keys at the display having one of the plural function input keys highlighted when the sliding movement touch corresponds to a touch location of the input key. The on-screen-display user interface presents different control interfaces when touches include multiple fingers and drag versus non-drag inputs, such as by automatically applying a submenu control to the simultaneous touch, like changing speaker volume and toggling a microphone between mute and unmute.

Information handling system touch function row with gesture inputs

Information handling system touch function row with sliding presentation of function icons

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Pflugerville, TX, United States of America

Nidhi Palan