Patent ID: 9274551
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method of determining a user inputted symbol or function at a data entry device comprising: associating a group of symbols or a group of functions with each of a single key region from a group of key regions associated with the data entry device; assigning to each of the single symbols from the group of symbols or each of the single functions from the group of functions associated with each of the key regions an input object from a group of input objects, each of the input objects being separate from the single key region and moveable from a position outside the single key region to a position inside the single key region to actuate the single key region; determining which single key region of the group of key regions that has been actuated by the input object; identifying the input object that actuated the key region; and outputting the symbol or performing the function in response to the identifying of the input object that actuated the single key region.