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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2020

Filed:

Apr. 06, 2017
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Al Chakra, Apex, NC (US);

Gary Denner, County Meath, IE;

Jonathan Dunne, County Waterford, IE;

Liam Harpur, Dublin, IE;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 8/38 (2018.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 8/20 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 8/20 (2013.01); G06F 8/38 (2013.01);
Abstract

For improving a future UI design, a set of data is analyzed. A data in a first subset of the set includes (i) a description of a UI layout including a description of a UI element in a first area of a touch-sensitive device, the first area having a below a level of sensitivity, the data, and (ii) a second area of the touch-sensitive device having a second sensitivity at least equal to the level of sensitivity. A characteristic of the UI element is extracted. A threshold number of data in the first subset include some UI element with the characteristic. For a first area in each data in the subset, the characteristic is determined to cause a sensitivity to reduce to below the level of sensitivity. Accordingly, an instruction causes a UI design tool to move a UI element in the future UI design to a second area.


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