Patent ID: 7363398

Claim:
A system for interfacing a user with an electronic device, comprising: a plurality of accessor devices with each accessor device classified by a level at which the accessor device is connected, wherein each accessor device (i) comprises an input sensor, including at least one of a keyboard, a keypad, a mouse, an electronic tablet, a handheld device, a pointing device, a head tracker, an eye gaze tracker, a microphone, a speech recognizer, a sonar device, a camera, a biosensor, and a electromagnetic sensor, for providing a user interface matched to an access need and an ability of the user, (ii) determines an intent from a user's input actions, (iii) translates the user input actions and data into commands for the electronic device, and (iv) transfers the commands to an intelligent access port that translates the commands received from the accessor devices into an input format required by the electronic device; and a communication link that connects each accessor device with the intelligent access port to send the translated user input actions and data from each accessor device to the intelligent access port.