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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2019
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Claes-Fredrik U. Mannby, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A system is described that mitigates the unintentional triggering of action keys on keyboards. The system detects and interprets first and second keyboard input events. If the first keyboard input event is interpreted as a character input and the second keyboard input event is interpreted as an action input, the system performs a pattern analysis based at least on an elapsed time between the first and second keyboard input events. If the second keyboard input is determined to be unintentional, the system may mitigate the unintentional triggering of the second keyboard input event by ignoring it or by interpreting the second keyboard input event as something other than the action input. If the second keyboard input is determined to be intentional, then the second keyboard input is accepted as the action input.