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

Claim 17:
18. A touchpad comprising:
a touch detection surface;
a touchpad display operable to present visual images;
a processing resource interfaced with the touch detection surface and touchpad display; and
a non-transitory memory interfaced with the processing resource and storing instructions 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, the predetermined locations each having a videoconferencing application control icon presented, the second set of touches interpreted as commands to the videoconferencing application.