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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2006
Filed:
Nov. 10, 2003
Ernest L. Pennington, Ii, Issaquah, WA (US);
Adrian James Garside, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jeffrey West Pettiross, Seattle, WA (US);
Shawna Julie Davis, Seattle, WA (US);
Tobiasz Alexander Zielinski, Redmond, WA (US);
Ernest L. Pennington, II, Issaquah, WA (US);
Adrian James Garside, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jeffrey West Pettiross, Seattle, WA (US);
Shawna Julie Davis, Seattle, WA (US);
Tobiasz Alexander Zielinski, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A user input panel dynamically expands to accommodate user input, such as handwritten or keyboard input. Expansion may occur in one or two out of four possible directions, depending upon the language to be written or typed. For example, when writing English words, the input panel may expand to the right as the user writes and then downward when the input panel has fully expanded rightward.