Google Invents Dynamic Virtual Input Device Configuration
March 13, 2009
The addled goose loves Google open source information. A case in point is US20090070098, a patent application for “Dynamic Virtual Input Device Configuration”. You don’t care! Well, I do. The conjunction of “dynamic” and “virtual” are significant to the addled goose. Vlad Patryshev and Google legal thought so too. Here’s the Googlespeak modified by legalspeak about what I think is an important disclosure:
In one aspect, a virtual input device can be configured by detecting a language identifier associated with a selected data entry field, determining a key mapping corresponding to the detected language identifier, configuring a virtual input device in accordance with the key mapping, wherein the virtual input device includes one or more controls and the key mapping specifies a character corresponding to at least one of the plurality of controls, and presenting the virtual input device to a user. The language identifier can comprise one of an Extensible Markup Language tag and a Hypertext Markup Language tag. Further, user input selecting a second data entry field can be received, wherein a second language identifier is associated with the second data entry field, a second key mapping corresponding to the second language identifier can be determined, and the virtual input device can be configured in accordance with the second key mapping.
Take your breath away? I thought of the applicaitons of this invention for data input and behind the scenes manipulation of those data–dynamic, virtual device configuration.
Stephen Arnold, March 13, 2009
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