Patent ID: 7161587
Filing Date: 2007-01-09
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for providing keyboard assistance to a user of a software application, the method comprising the steps of: detecting a pressed keyboard key concurrently with the application being active, wherein the application has certain hot key combinations: selecting ones of the keyboard keys responsive to the key pressed, the selected keys corresponding to ones of the hot key combinations that include the pressed key: and sending at least one signal for differentiating the selected keys on the keyboard, wherein the application is operable to have a number of contexts and certain ones of the hot key combinations are valid for certain ones of the contexts and not valid for other ones of the contexts, and wherein the method comprises the step of: detecting the context of the application, wherein the selecting is responsive to the detected context and the selected keys correspond to ones of the hot key combinations that include the pressed key and that are valid for the detected context.