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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 2017
Filed:
Jun. 25, 2014
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Timothy Seung Yoon Paek, Sammamish, WA (US);
John Helmes, Limburg, NL;
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
An auxiliary device that remotely controls a mobile computing device is described herein. The auxiliary device can be wirelessly coupled with the mobile computing device. The auxiliary device can detect a user input at the auxiliary device. An operation executed by the mobile computing device can be performed responsive to the user input. Further, an identity of the operation can be a function of a context of the mobile computing device and the user input. Responsive to detection of the user input, the auxiliary device can transmit data indicative of the user input from the auxiliary device to the mobile computing device.