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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2014
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Lucinio Santos-Gomez, Durham, NC (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Inadvertent touch selection events from a touch screen are avoided. A threshold physical distance between a touch start and a touch end for a touch screen is set. A touch input from the touch screen is received. A determination is made as to whether or not the touch input traverses a distance that is less than or greater than the threshold physical distance. In response to determining that the touch input traverses a distance that is less or equal to the threshold physical distance, a processor activates a selection event for an item. In response to determining that the touch input traverses a distance that is greater than the threshold physical distance, the processor scrolls the plurality of scrollable items.