Patent ID: 8619052
Filing Date: 2013-12-31
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: an input tracking component configured to track multi-touch input to a multi-touch screen, the multi-touch input comprising input received from a primary member and input received from a secondary member and configured to disambiguate between the input received from the primary member and the input received from the secondary member, wherein the input tracking component comprises: a cursor control component configured to cause the cursor to be activated based on a selection input received from the primary member; a menu component configured to invoke a menu comprising a plurality of selection areas in response to detecting that the secondary member has established contact with the multi-touch screen; the input tracking component further configured to concurrently enable selecting content on the multi-touch screen by positioning the cursor over the content to be selected based on a steering input received from the primary member and adjusting a control-display ratio of the content selected in response to detecting movement of the secondary member into a particular selection area of the plurality of selection areas of the menu; the menu component further configured to close the menu in response to detecting that the secondary member has been removed from the multi-touch screen; and the cursor control component further configured to cause the cursor to return to a default state in response to the input tracking component determining that the secondary member has been removed from the multi-touch screen.