Patent ID: 9417726
Filing Date: 2016-08-16
CPC Classification: G06F

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: determining whether a human interface sink device supports one or more keyboard and mouse functions, enabling each supported function to enable one display screen to implement one of concurrent touch screen plus keyboard functions, concurrent touch screen plus mouse functions, or concurrent touch screen plus keyboard and mouse functions; and selectively enabling the human interface sink device with a touch-based keyboard, in addition to a multi-touch function, all on said one display screen; sending touch data over an auxiliary (AUX) channel by configuring the sink device to handle touch data, configuring the sink device to generate an interrupt, when touch data is available, populating the data in a report and generating an interrupt, when the sink device sets a get report indicator with an identifier of a desired report, populating a register with the requested report, and generating another interrupt.