Patent ID: 7986307

Claim:
A computing system comprising: a digitizer; a processor that executes a client side application having an input sink; and a tablet input object, including a tablet context ID that specifies a tablet name, that defines a plurality of different input types including touch input, made via a user's finger, and pen input, wherein the computing system provides a corresponding set of options for each of the plurality of different input types, the tablet input object including: a server side object that receives a message including a signature from said digitizer that differentiates between touch input, made via a user's finger, and pen input; and a client side object that receives the message from the server side object, the client side object exchanging the message with said input sink of the client side application, the client side object determining that the received message represents touch input, made via a user's finger based upon the tablet name, wherein a portion of the tablet name includes a term identifying the tablet as a touch tablet, wherein, upon a determination that touch input, made via a user's finger, has been received, the client side application provides touch-specific options and disables areas of a user interface not affected by touch input.