Patent ID: 9639186
Date: 2017-05-02
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method of interpreting gestures made on a touch screen that is displaying a mouse-and-keyboard based user interface (UI), comprising: receiving a press-and-hold event in combination with a tap event in response to gestures made on the touch screen, wherein the press-and-hold event is detected in response to a user placing and holding a finger in contact with the touch screen beyond a first threshold amount of time, and wherein the tap event occurs after the press-and-hold event is detected; translating the received events to a mouse right-click command responsive to determining that the press-and-hold event in combination with the tap event was performed in less than a second threshold of time and determining that a location of the tap event is greater than a threshold distance from the location of the press-and-hold event; transmitting the mouse right-click command to an operating system; and receiving from the operating system, in response to the transmitted mouse right-click command, an updated mouse-and-keyboard based UI.