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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2012
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Alexander Friedrich Kuscher, San Francisco, CA (US);
Stefan Kuhne, San Jose, CA (US);
John Nicholas Jitkoff, Palo Alto, CA (US);
GOOGLE INC., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for processing a touch input are provided. An initial press action that is associated with a number of simultaneous touches is detected on a touch interface. One or more commands that are mapped to one or more sequences of user interaction is determined based on the number of simultaneous touches, where each of the one or more sequences of user interaction is initiated by the initial press action. One or more graphical interface components, where each of the one or more graphical interface components correspond to a different one of the one or more sequences of user interaction are provided for display. Each of the one or more graphical interface components indicate at least part of the corresponding sequence of user interaction and indicates respective command mapped to the corresponding sequence of user interaction.