Patent Document ID: 7936341
Application ID: 11755660

Base Claim:
1. At a computer system including a multi-touch input display surface, a method for recognizing a region for selecting items displayed on the multi-touch input display surface, the method comprising: an act of receiving a set of points, indicating at least that: contact with the multi-touch input display surface was detected at a first location on the multi-touch input display surface; and contact with the multi-touch input surface was detected at a second location on the multi-touch input display surface simultaneously with the detected contact at the first location; an act of calculating a selection region on the multi-touch input display surface based at least on the first location and the second location; an act of identifying selected items displayed on the multi-touch input display surface that are selected by the calculated selection region; an act of providing region visual feedback data to the multi-touch input display surface to display the calculated selection region on the multi-touch input display surface; and an act of providing item visual feedback data to the multi-touch input display surface to visually indicate the selected items on the multi-touch input display surface.

---

Claim 9:
9. The method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising: an act of displaying the boundaries of the calculated selection region on the multi-touch input display surface; and an act of altering the display characteristics of any selected items to indicate that the selected items are selected by the selection region.