Method and multimode user interface for processing user inputs

Abstract

The invention concerns a method and a multimode user interface for processing multimode user inputs, which are entered into a computer unit in various input modes within one specified application environment of several different ones, and converted there into different data streams. To make specially flexible processing of multimode user input possible, without having to switch manually between different input modes, it is proposed that within the data streams different information categories should be distinguished, depending on a context in which the data streams were generated, a suitable processing sequence of the information categories within the individual data streams should be determined, and the data streams should be processed in the determined sequence, the context comprising the current and/or past application environments.

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