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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 09, 2018
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Narasimhan Raghunath, Redmond, WA (US);
Scott A. Greenlay, Redmond, WA (US);
Francis Miland Hogle, IV, Seattle, WA (US);
Fei Su, Issaquah, WA (US);
Austin B. Hodges, Seattle, WA (US);
Akhilesh Kaza, Sammamish, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods, systems, and computer program products are described herein an extensible input stack for processing input device data received from a plurality of different input devices attached to a computing device. The extensible input stack comprises a plurality of stack layers. Each of the plurality of stack layers performs a particular set of processing with respect to the input device data, among other operations. Each of the plurality of stack layers comprises a code interface, which is used to provide and/or or receive data from the input device and/or other stack layers. Each of the stack layers is extensible to include additional functionality to support new input devices. By separating out the functionality performed by the input stack into separate stack layers, and having each layer accessible via a code interface, the functionality of each of stack layers may be easily extended to support any type of input device.