Filtering of Inadvertent Contact with Touch Pad Input Device

An information handling system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• a memory coupled to at least one of the processors;
• a nonvolatile storage area coupled to at least one of the processors;
• a touch pad input device accessible to at least one of the processors, the touch pad receiving user input at a surface of the touch pad;
• and
• a set of instructions stored in the memory and executed by at least one of the processors in order to perform actions of:
• defining a filter area within the surface of the touch pad input device;
• receiving an input stream from the touch pad input device resulting from the a user contacting the surface of the touch pad, wherein the input stream includes an origination point where contact was initially made by the user;
• filtering out the input stream in response to the origination point being within the defined filter area;
• and
• processing the input stream in response to the origination point being outside the defined filter area.

A computer program product stored in a computer readable medium, comprising functional descriptive material that, when executed by an information handling system, causes the information handling system to perform actions comprising:

• defining a filter area within a surface of a touch pad input device accessible from the information handling system;
• receiving an input stream from the touch pad input device resulting from the a user contacting the surface of the touch pad, wherein the input stream includes an origination point where contact was initially made by the user;
• filtering out the input stream in response to the origination point being within the defined filter area;
• and
• processing the input stream in response to the origination point being outside the defined filter area.