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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 19, 2021
Filed:
Feb. 16, 2019
David Graham Boyers, Los Altos, CA (US);
David Graham Boyers, Los Altos, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A method, comprising: at a computing device running applications under a touch-based operating system: receiving data from a touchpad device; detecting a contact on the touchpad device; in response to detecting a contact comprising a tap gesture or click gesture, displaying a selection of length equal to zero within editable text content; in response to detecting a contact comprising a long-press gesture or long-click gesture, displaying a selection of length equal to one character within read-only text content; detecting a contact on the touchpad device; and in response to detecting a change in a position of the contact on the touchpad device, changing a position of the selection.