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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 23, 2009
Joseph Smith, Duvall, WA (US);
Sam J. George, Kenmore, WA (US);
Stefan Wick, Sammamish, WA (US);
Todd A. Torset, Woodinville, WA (US);
Jesse Bishop, Redmond, WA (US);
Joseph Smith, Duvall, WA (US);
Sam J. George, Kenmore, WA (US);
Stefan Wick, Sammamish, WA (US);
Todd A. Torset, Woodinville, WA (US);
Jesse Bishop, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A multi-touch plug-in system is described herein that exposes multi-touch data for web application developers to consume in a platform independent way. The multi-touch plug-in system receives platform-specific touch data from an operating system or touch hardware, interprets the platform-specific touch data to convert the platform-specific touch data to generic touch data, and provides the generic touch data to a hosted application running within a plug-in sandbox. Often, sandboxed environments only allow identified, trusted plug-ins to execute. By managing multi-touch data within a trusted plug-in, the plug-in can ensure that hosted applications are properly restricted to well-defined behavior, while still allowing rich features such as multi-touch interaction. Thus, the multi-touch plug-in system brings rich multi-touch interaction to a web browsing environment.