Patent ID: 7490173

Claim:
A method of processing multimode user inputs in a computer unit connected to various input means in various input modes, the method comprising: entering a plurality of user inputs generated from the various input means in the various input modes to execute an application running on the computer unit; providing a plurality of information categories representing a plurality of interpreters interpreting the user inputs with respect to the application; converting the user inputs into respective data streams; determining a respective processing sequence of each of the respective data streams by assigning the information categories to the each of the respective data streams differently depending on a context of the user inputs, the respective data streams being distinguished from one another by how the information categories are assigned; and processing the respective data streams in the determined respective processing sequences to execute the application, wherein the context comprises at least one of the application and an application previously executed in the computer unit, and wherein when the plurality of the user inputs are entered to execute the application, the information categories are assigned to the each of the respective data streams not manually by a user of the various input means in the various input modes.