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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 18, 2010
Shawna Julie Davis, Seattle, WA (US);
Peter G. Chin, Seattle, WA (US);
Tirthankar Sengupta, Redmond, WA (US);
Priyanka Singhal, Bellevue, WA (US);
Benjamin F. Carter, Redmond, WA (US);
Peter Gregory Davis, Kirkland, WA (US);
Shawna Julie Davis, Seattle, WA (US);
Peter G. Chin, Seattle, WA (US);
Tirthankar Sengupta, Redmond, WA (US);
Priyanka Singhal, Bellevue, WA (US);
Benjamin F. Carter, Redmond, WA (US);
Peter Gregory Davis, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The described embodiments allow for the selection of content in a touch screen display. The method includes detecting a single tap on a word of text in a text editing field in a touch screen, and responsive to the single tap selecting the word of text in whole. In another embodiment additional content can be selected. Contact with selected content displayed in a touch screen can be detected. The contact with the touch screen can be detected moving in a direction along the selected content. Additional content is selected by selecting a word of text adjacent to the selected content being contacted.