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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2013
Applicant:
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., Camas, WA (US);
Inventor:
William John Vojak, Battle Ground, WA (US);
Assignee:
Sharp Laboratories of America, Inc., Camas, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0488 (2013.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 9/4443 (2013.01);
Abstract
Methods and systems for configuring on touch screen enabled devices custom gestures and custom soft buttons that are equivalent to default gestures configured on such devices allow equivalent custom gestures and soft buttons to be configured seamlessly on such devices without invoking a configuration tool or widget, enable multiple custom gestures and soft buttons equivalent to a particular default gesture to coexist on such devices and permit sets of personal equivalent custom gestures and soft buttons to be saved and loaded on such devices by particular users.