Multiple keyboard context sensitivity for application usage
CA 2548266 C · Owner: Plestid, Trevor · Inventors: Plestid, Trevor; Munje, Arun
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A method and improved mobile device for providing context sensitivity for application usage in a mobile device having multiple keyboards the method comprising the steps of: receiving a keystroke at the mobile device; checking a state the mobile device is in; comparing the state the mobile device is in with a state an application expects; if the comparing step determines the state the mobile device is in differs from the state an application expects and mapping the keystroke from the state the mobile device is in to a keystroke in the state the application expects.
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- Filed May 25, 2006 and granted September 11, 2012. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended May 25, 2026.
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