Patent ID: 6970158
Filing Date: 2005-11-29
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer system for providing an audible alert to a user typing on a keyboard when said keyboard is in CAPS LOCK mode, comprising: (a) means to determine if said keyboard is in CAPS LOCK mode, said CAPS LOCK mode being entered into when the CAPS LOCK key is activated and causing alphabetic characters associated with typed alphabetic character keys to be presented on-screen in capital letters; (b) means to detect user keystrokes; (c) means within said computer system to generate an audible alert; (d) a timer associated with said CAPS LOCK key and having a duration limit, said timer being expired when said duration limit is exceeded; (e) means to generate said audible alert when an alphabetic character key is typed while said keyboard is in said CAPS LOCK mode and after said timer has expired; and (f) means to start or restart said timer each time said CAPS LOCK key is activated into said CAPS LOCK mode, and when an alphabetic character key is typed while in said CAPS LOCK mode.