Meredith S Morris

US Patent:

8264455, Sep 11, 2012

Filed:

Feb 3, 2009

Appl. No.:

12/365145

Inventors:

Rebecca Fiebrink - Princeton NJ, US
Dan Morris - Bellevue WA, US
Meredith Morris - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G09G 5/00

US Classification:

345156, 345173, 345174, 345175, 345184, 715700, 715750, 715751

Abstract:

Physical controls on a physical controller device (PCD) are dynamically mapped to application controls for an application being executed on a computer having a touch-sensitive display surface. The computer identifies a PCD which has been placed by a user on the display surface and displays a mapping aura for the PCD. When the user touches an activate direct-touch button displayed within the mapping aura, the computer activates a mapping procedure for the PCD and displays a highlighted direct-touch button over each application control which is available to be mapped to the physical controls on the PCD. When the user selects a particular application control which is available to be mapped by touching the highlighted button residing over the control, the computer creates a dynamic mapping between the selected application control and a user-selected physical control on the PCD.