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Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015

Filed:

May. 28, 2010
Applicants:

Bradford Allen Moore, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Stephen W. Swales, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Inventors:

Bradford Allen Moore, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Stephen W. Swales, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/023 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01); G06F 3/0488 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/4443 (2013.01); G06F 3/0233 (2013.01); G06F 3/0237 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01);
Abstract

A system and method for issuing commands to an application based on contextual information. A control application receives an indication that a text manipulation event has occurred in a user interface of a second application. Next, the control application queries the second application to obtain contextual information established by the second application prior to the event, the contextual information providing context to the text manipulation event that occurred in the user interface of the second application. The control application then issues one or more commands to the second application based on the contextual information providing context to the text manipulation event.


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