Patent ID: 11899923
Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 0:
1. An information handling system comprising:
a housing;
a processor disposed in the housing and operable to execute instructions to process information;
a memory interfaced with the processor and operable to store the instructions and information;
a display included in the housing and interfaced with the processor, the display operable to present the information as visual images;
a persistent storage device having memory storing an operating system and plural applications configured to execute as instructions on the processor;
a touchpad included in the housing and having a touch detection surface, a touchpad display, a processing resource and a non-transitory memory interfaced with the processing resource; and
instructions stored in the non-transitory memory that when executed on the processing resource cause the touchpad touch detection surface to detect touches in a cursor mode and a touchpad display mode, the cursor mode detecting touches as cursor inputs across a full touch detection surface area, the touchpad display mode simultaneously detecting a first set of touches as cursor inputs across the full touch detection surface area and a second set of touches as touchscreen display inputs at predetermined locations of the touch detection surface, the first and second set of touches distinguished by one or more touch characteristics.