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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2018
Filed:
May. 22, 2015
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
Oren Freiberg, Seattle, WA (US);
Brandon Walderman, Redmond, WA (US);
Scott Sheehan, Redmond, WA (US);
MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A primary user input mechanism is recommended to an application that executes on a computing device which supports a plurality of different user input mechanisms that users of the computing device can utilize to input information into the computing device. The utilization of each of the user input mechanisms is monitored on an ongoing basis, where this monitoring includes weighting each of the user input mechanisms based on its frequency of use. Upon receiving an indication to launch the application on the computing device, a one of the user input mechanisms currently having the highest weight is recommended to the application as being the primary user input mechanism. The weighting of each of the user input mechanisms is also provided to the application.