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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 09, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 24, 2012
Applicant:
Nicolas Brun, Seattle, WA (US);
Inventor:
Nicolas Brun, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/00 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 9/46 (2006.01); G06F 13/00 (2006.01); G06F 3/0481 (2013.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04812 (2013.01); G06F 9/542 (2013.01);
Abstract
An operating system has a stack of input events (an input stack) that provides input events from various input devices to applications. A dedicated thread or other entity is provided to handle input events that are related to pixel manipulation on the display, so as to provide a highly responsive display. The thread includes a buffer, and manages the buffer so as to ensure that messages a received by an application or other entity in chronological order.