Patent ID: 8643615

Claim:
A method, comprising: receiving user input with a touch panel interface; recognizing a multi-shape, multi-touch gesture including finger and non-finger touches in the user input; and performing an action associated with the multi-touch gesture including finger and non-finger touches, the action comprising adding expressive features to text and removing resting interactions of the finger and non-finger touches on the touch panel interface, wherein the adding expressive features to the text comprise one or more of the following: tilting an angle of the text based, at least in part, on an angle of the finger or non-finger touch; bolding the text based, at least in part, on an amount of time the finger or non-finger touch is in contact with the touch panel interface; bolding the text based, at least in part, on an amount of force applied by the finger or non-finger touch to the touch panel interface; increasing or decreasing a size of the text based, at least in part, on an amount of force the finger or non-finger touch to the touch panel interface; or increasing or decreasing one or more distances between words in the text based, at least in part, on the finger touches comprising two or more fingers moving away from each other or the two or more fingers moving towards each other.