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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 08, 2009
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2007
Applicants:
Alice Lockhart, Seattle, WA (US);
Vincent Ball, Kirkland, WA (US);
Kevin Smith, Redmond, WA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/12 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method for carrying out application-specific mapping of input device elements (for example, human input device buttons). The method includes, from an application matching program, determining, for an application program, whether a control element event (for example, a mouse button click event) needs to carry out an action that is specific to the application program, or to perform its default action. The application matching program is configured to execute independently of the application program. A computing system that is capable of carrying out the above method is also provided.