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Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 11, 2016
Applicant:

Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Alex Neely Ainslie, San Francisco, CA (US);

John Nicholas Jitkoff, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0418 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 3/04886 (2013.01);
Abstract

A machine-implemented method for processing touch elements of an application of a device is provided. The method includes receiving application data associated with the application, the application data providing for the touch elements, each of the touch elements comprising an activation area configured to receive a user input and to trigger at least one function of the application upon receiving the user input. The method further includes determining, from the application data, that plural ones of the touch elements are for display in a group in the application; and classifying, in response to the determining, each of the touch elements of the group into two or more categories based on the application function of the touch element. The method further includes defining a size of the activation area for at least one of the touch elements based on the classification.


Find Patent Forward Citations

Ainslie, Alex. (2019). Touch interpretation for displayed elements (U.S. Patent No. 10409420). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10409420

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