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AssigneeNVIDIA Corporation
InventorVarun Vishwas Wadekar
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An operating system providing multi-touch support for (user) applications in a mobile device. In one embodiment, a check of whether the touch screen (in the mobile device) has multi-touch capability is performed. A first interface with multi-touch capability is provided to the (user) applications if the touch screen has multi-touch capability and a second interface with single touch capability being provided if the touch screen does not have multi-touch capability. The first and second interfaces may be provided by corresponding device drivers loaded when the mobile device is initialized with the operating system. A device driver (providing the second interface) is also designed to perform the check and execute another device driver (providing the first interface) if the touch screen has multi-touch capability.
A method of supporting an user application executing in the context of an operating system, both of said user application and said operating system being provided in a mobile device with a touch screen, said method comprising:
A machine readable medium storing software instructions which can be executed by one or more processors of a mobile device to provide support to an user application, said software instructions comprising:
A mobile device comprising:
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