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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 13, 1996
Applicant:
Inventors:
Steve Peng, Taipei, TW;
Chunn-Cherh Kuo, Taipei Hsien, TW;
Assignee:
Silitek Corporation, Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
710 67 ; 708146 ;
Abstract
A method for expanding hot keys on a keyboard is provided wherein the standard key codes for alphabets A-Z, numbers 1-0, functional keys F1-F12, can be combined with E0 code of special key of the IBM keyboard, accordingly, a new expanding codes are established, These so defined extendible codes are supported by the application program of the Windows to increase the utilization of the hot keys. These extendible codes are completely compatible with IBM PC. Besides, interference resulted from expanding the utilization scope of the standard codes of the operating system can be avoided.