Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Dynamic space bar
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Application No.: US16296787Application Date: 2019-03-08
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Publication No.: US10817109B2Publication Date: 2020-10-27
- Inventor: Katie Leah Roberts-Hoffman , Charles Zimmer Mooney
- Applicant: Google LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee: Google LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: G06F3/041
- IPC: G06F3/041 ; G06F3/0489 ; G06F3/0484 ; G06F3/02 ; G06F3/0354 ; G06F3/0488

Abstract:
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing a dynamic space bar are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of determining, by a computing device that includes a touchscreen keyboard and trackpad, a context of the computing device. The actions further include receiving touch input on the trackpad. The actions further include designating, by the computing device and based on the previously-determined context of the computing device, the touch input on the trackpad to be a selection of a space bar of the touchscreen keyboard. The actions further include providing, for output to a display of the computing device and based on the computing device having designated the touch input on the trackpad to be a selection of the space bar, an indication of the selection of the space bar.
Public/Granted literature
- US20190265833A1 DYNAMIC SPACE BAR Public/Granted day:2019-08-29
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