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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 02, 2014
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Kimberly Koenig, Redmond, WA (US);
Weston Thayer, Seattle, WA (US);
Shiraz Somji, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ruth Kikin-Gil, Bellevue, WA (US);
Christopher Jon Rinker, Seattle, WA (US);
Ravi Pinjala, Bellevue, WA (US);
Ivor Berry, Seattle, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A touch-based device provides invocation control over a keyboard user interface (UI). The device displays a keyboard UI overlaid on an application UI to allow a user to interact with the application UI. A dismissal UI is displayed adjacent to the keyboard UI to allow the user to dismiss the keyboard UI. The keyboard UI is dismissed in response to detecting a user action on the dismissal UI. The device presents a lock UI and an invocation UI adjacent to the lock UI. In response to detecting another user action on the lock UI, the user is prevented from invoking the keyboard UI.