Patent Document ID: 9086794
Application ID: 13339569

Base Claim:
1. A method executed in a computing device to determine a tap action on a context based menu, the method comprising: in response to detecting a tap action presenting the context based menu in relation to a displayed content on a user interface, wherein the context based menu comprises: radially distributed command items around a collapse control, a center zone that defines a target hit area for the collapse control, a dead zone surrounding the target hit area for the collapse control, a command zone surrounding the dead zone, and a sub-menu zone surrounding the command zone, the command zone and the sub-menu zone including primary hit target regions and secondary hit target regions surrounding each command item within the command zone; in response to detecting the tap action in a primary hit target region centered around a command item, interpreting the tap action as an activation event associated with the command item; in response to detecting the tap action in a secondary hit target region around the command item, the secondary hit target region surrounding the primary hit target region, interpreting the tap action based on a tap action history analysis, wherein the tap action history analysis includes a detection of a most recorded event that is associated with an activation of the command item and another command item adjacent to the command item, wherein secondary hit target regions of the command item and the other command item overlap.

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Claim 3:
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein at least one of a size and a shape of the primary hit target region is determined according to a user interface configuration setting.