Patent ID: 9336753
Filing Date: 2016-05-10
CPC Classification: G06F,G09G

Claim Text:
1. In a computer system receiving input from a user via at least a keyboard and a pointing device, wherein input via the pointing device causes corresponding movement of a pointing image on a display screen of the computer system, a method comprising: receiving user input via the pointing device to point the pointing image at a first onscreen object on the display screen; analyzing at least a current keyboard input focus on a second onscreen object to determine whether (a) the first onscreen object is targeted via the pointing device despite the second onscreen object having current keyboard input focus, or (b) the pointing image is pointing at the first onscreen object but the first onscreen object is not targeted via the pointing device, wherein the analyzing comprises, in response to determining that the second onscreen object having current keyboard input focus is an HTML document, determining that the first onscreen object is targeted via the pointing device despite the HTML document having current keyboard input focus; and in response to the user activating a key on the keyboard while the first onscreen object is determined to be targeted via the pointing device and the pointing image is pointing at the first onscreen object, executing a secondary action with respect to the first onscreen object, and suppressing execution of an action of the keyboard key with respect to the second onscreen object having the current keyboard input focus.