PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16421511
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2019-05
Publication Date: 2019-09
Patent Classification: ["345", "174000"]

Abstract:
In an approach for controlling a computing device without mechanical buttons the computer detects an interaction with a touch capacitive sensing surface on a computing device. The computer determines that the detected interaction includes at least three interactions including at least two different touch capacitive sensing surfaces. The computer determines a virtual control button to display based on the detected interaction. The computer displays the determined virtual control button to the user. The computer receives an interaction with the displayed virtual control button. The computer implements an action associated with the determined virtual control button based on the received interaction.

Claim (Index 1):
A computer program product for controlling a computing device without mechanical buttons the computer program product comprising:\n one or more non-transitory computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising: program instructions to detect an interaction with a touch capacitive sensing surface on a computing device, wherein the computing device includes touch capacitive sensing surfaces in place of mechanical buttons; program instructions to determine whether the detected interaction is a first interaction, wherein the first interaction starts a defined sequence of at least three interactions; responsive to determining the detected interaction is the first interaction, program instructions to identify the first interaction with a first touch capacitive surface of the computing device and coordinates of the first interaction; program instructions to detect a change in the coordinates of the first interaction; program instructions to determine whether the change in coordinates of the first interaction are within the first touch capacitive sensing surface, wherein the change in the coordinates of the first interaction is based on determining whether the first interaction changes from a first geometric plane to a second geometric plane, wherein the coordinates of the first interaction are associated with a single set of coordinates; responsive to determining the change in coordinates of the first interaction are not within the first touch capacitive sensing surface, program instructions to identify a second interaction with a second touch capacitive sensing surface of the computing device and coordinates of the second interaction; program instructions to detect a change in the coordinates of the second interaction; program instructions to determine whether the change in coordinates of the second interaction are within the second touch capacitive sensing surface, wherein the change in the coordinates of the second interaction is based on determining whether the second interaction changes from one of the following: the second geometric plane to a third geometric plane, and the second geometric plane to the first geometric plane; responsive to determining the change in coordinates of the second interaction are not within the second touch capacitive sensing surface, program instructions to identify a third interaction with a third capacitive surface of the computing device, and coordinates of the third interaction; program instructions to compare the first interaction, the second interaction, and the third interaction in order with defined interactions in memory, wherein the first interaction, the second interaction, and the third interaction in order form a single type of defined interaction selected from a group of types of defined interactions stored in memory that include: a continuous motion that includes at least three touch capacitive sensing surfaces and a sequence of defined interactions that includes a series of separate interactions with at least three touch sensing capacitive surfaces, wherein the series of separate interaction includes one or more of adjacent interactions and non-adjacent interactions, wherein the detected interaction is a defined interaction that is a customized predefined interaction created by a user wherein the defined interaction links to a specific action that identifies a specific virtual control for operating an aspect of the computing device; program instructions to identify a match between the first interaction, the second interaction, and the third interaction in order and the defined interactions in memory based on the comparison; program instructions to determine a virtual control button based on the identified match; program instructions to determine that a time length of the first interaction, the second interaction, and the third interaction in order at least meets a defined time; program instructions to display the determined virtual control button on the computing device in proximity to the third interaction to the user; program instructions to receive an interaction with the displayed virtual control button; and program instructions to implement an action associated with the determined virtual control button based on the received interaction.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 1.0
- Percentile: 100.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.12
- Patent Class: 345.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15402558', '16421518', '15729965', '16101750', '15624097']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6723332542843059
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.5363300677604991
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6587329356319253
- Mean Citation Score: 285.647704
- Max Citation Score: 365.72202
- Similarity Product: 356.6746964477028

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test