Patent ID: 8418062

Claim:
A method in a personal computing system for a program displaying a browser window to control a media window program upon receipt of certain key event data directed to the browser window program, comprising: (a) having a personal computing system for running programs which personal computing system provides key event data to running programs and provides pointer event data to running programs; wherein the pointer event data does not encompass key event data and the key event data does not encompass pointer event data; (b) having at least one media window program running in the personal computing system; (c) having at least one browser window program running in the personal computing system which browser window program receives any key event data; (d) receiving at the browser window program key event data including a value of a single key press event; (e) by running an event-handling script, the browser window program determining whether the value of the single key press event falls within a category of key event values that should be redirected by the browser window program to the media window program by comparing the key event value to a list of key event values; and (f) if so, the browser window program redirects the key event to the media window program by calling a function of the media window program which function is not a part of the event-handling script and, via the function, sending a command to the media window program.