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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 04, 2011
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2006
Olumuyiwa M. Durojaiye, Bothell, WA (US);
Steven P. Dodge, Sammamish, WA (US);
Bryan D. Scott, Bothell, WA (US);
Doron J. Holan, Seattle, WA (US);
Eliyas Yakub, Issaquah, WA (US);
Reed L. Townsend, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Tsang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Olumuyiwa M. Durojaiye, Bothell, WA (US);
Steven P. Dodge, Sammamish, WA (US);
Bryan D. Scott, Bothell, WA (US);
Doron J. Holan, Seattle, WA (US);
Eliyas Yakub, Issaquah, WA (US);
Reed L. Townsend, Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Tsang, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A virtual driver is enabled and a class driver is bypassed to provide at least one functionality different than that of the bypassed class driver. A filter driver is initialized in the stack of a class driver in order to bypass the class driver. The filter driver receives inputs associated with the input device and/or application emulating an input device and passes the input data to a virtual driver. The virtual driver provides data to an operating system for functionality that is at least partially different than that of the bypassed class driver.