Patent 08059101 - Swipe gestures for touch screen keyboards > Summary

Patent No. US 08059101

Published on Nov 15, 2011

Application No. 11/766929

Filed on Jun 22, 2007

Priority Date -

Westerman, Wayne Carl - San Francisco, CA US (80)

Systems, methods, and devices for interpreting manual swipe gestures as input in connection with touch-sensitive user interfaces that include virtual keyboards are disclosed herein. These allow for a user entering text using the virtual keyboard to perform certain functions using swipes across the key area rather than tapping particular keys. For example, leftward, rightward, upward, and downward swipes can be assigned to inserting a space, backspacing, shifting (as for typing capital letters), and inserting a carriage return and/or new line. Various other mappings are also described. The described techniques can be used in conjunction with a variety of devices, including handheld devices that include touch-screen interfaces, such as desktop computers, tablet computers, notebook computers, handheld computers, personal digital assistants, media players, mobile telephones, and combinations thereof.

Mengistu, Amare