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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 10, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 06, 2010
Geoffrey S. Martin, Overland Park, KS (US);
Danny L. Bowman, Overland Park, KS (US);
Geoffrey S. Martin, Overland Park, KS (US);
Danny L. Bowman, Overland Park, KS (US);
Sprint Spectrum L.P., Overland Park, KS (US);
Abstract
A method and system for processing touch input. A computing device with a touch-sensing interface may maintain a stored size value for touch input by a known user. The computing device may detect and then determine a size of a touch input. The computing device may then compare the determined size of the detected touch input to the stored size value for the known user's tough input. Based on this comparison, the computing device may process the touch input. For example, in response to the touch input, the computing device may (a) take a first action if the determined size exceeds the stored size value by a first value, and (b) otherwise, take a second action. In one aspect, before using the stored size value for the known user's touch input, the computing device may identify a current user of the computing device as the known user.