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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2016
Paypal, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Amol B. Patel, Los Altos, CA (US);
Suraj S. Menon, San Jose, CA (US);
PayPal, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products for allowing a user to perform a free-form action to initiate an activity associated with a user interface element are provided. For example, a computer-implemented method may include providing a user interface comprising a user interface element for display, detecting a free-form action performed by a user, determining a free-form definition corresponding to the detected free-form action where the determined free-form definition is one of a plurality of stored definitions, and performing an activity associated with the user interface element where the activity corresponds to the determined free-form definition.