US 2015/0317032 A1 · METHOD FOR PERFORMING TOUCH COMMUNICATIONS CONTROL OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND AN ASSOCIATED APPARATUS

Abstract

A method for performing touch communications control and an associated apparatus are provided, where the method includes the steps of: performing communications to establish at least one communications connection between the touch communications device and a plurality of touch communications devices; obtaining identification information of each touch communications device of the plurality of touch communications devices to determine whether each touch communications device of the plurality of touch communications devices is one of a plurality of predetermined touch communications devices; and performing a predetermined action based on whether each touch communications device of the plurality of touch communications devices is one of the plurality of predetermined touch communications devices.

Claims21

Dependent claims

A method for performing touch communications control, the method being applied to a touch communications device, the method comprising the steps of:

performing communications to establish at least one communications connection between the touch communications device and a plurality of touch communications devices;
obtaining identification information of each touch communications device of the plurality of touch communications devices to determine whether each touch communications device of the plurality of touch communications devices is one of a plurality of predetermined touch communications devices;
and
performing a predetermined action based on whether each touch communications device of the plurality of touch communications devices is one of the plurality of predetermined touch communications devices.

1 more element

An apparatus for performing touch communications control, the apparatus comprising at least one portion of a touch communications device, the apparatus comprising:

a touch panel arranged to allow at least one communications connection to be established through the touch panel;
and
a processing circuit, coupled to the touch panel, arranged to perform touch communications control, wherein with aid of the touch panel, the processing circuit performs communications to establish at least one communications connection between the touch communications device and a plurality of touch communications devices, obtains identification information of each touch communications device of the plurality of touch communications devices to determine whether each touch communications device of the plurality of touch communications devices is one of a plurality of predetermined touch communications devices, and performs a predetermined action based on whether each touch communications device of the plurality of touch communications devices is one of the plurality of predetermined touch communications devices.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/650,572Filed 14 Nov 2014

Priority

15 Nov 2013

Published

5 Nov 2015

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification10 codes

G06F 3/04162
Control or interface arrangements specially adapted for digitisers: for exchanging data with external devices, e.g. smart pens, via the digitiser…
G06F 3/0412
Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means: digitisers structurally integrated in a display
G06F 3/0488
Using specific features provided by the input device, e.g. functions controlled by the rotation of a mouse with dual sensing arrangements, or of…:…
G06F 2203/0382
Indexing scheme relating to G06F3/038: plural input, i.e. interface arrangements in which a plurality of input device of the same type are in…

Family

Application61/904,496Us provisional application · filed 15 Nov 2013

Application61/907,597Us provisional application · filed 22 Nov 2013

Application61/910,135Us provisional application · filed 29 Nov 2013

US 2015/0317032 A1This patent

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Method for performing touch communications control of an electronic device, and an associated apparatus

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Method for performing touch communications control of an electronic device, and an associated apparatus

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Abstract

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