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US 2016/0252974 A1Published application
Communicating with an unsupported input device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsKarthik Jayaraman, Molly Joy
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AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsKarthik Jayaraman, Molly Joy
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Systems and methods of communicating with an unsupported input device to make an application interact with the unsupported input device are described herein. The method comprises obtaining, for the application to be subscribed to the unsupported input device, a mapping of each of a plurality of hotkeys with a corresponding function performed in the application. The method further comprises retrieving a list of universal identifiers, where each of the universal identifiers corresponds to an unsupported input of the unsupported input device. Also, each of the universal identifiers is tagged with a function to be performed in the application in response to the corresponding unsupported input. The method also includes generating a configuration map for the application. The configuration map comprises a mapping of at least one universal identifier, from amongst the list of universal identifiers, with at least one of the plurality of hotkeys.
A method for subscribing an application to an unsupported input device, the method comprising:
A user device comprising:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having a set of computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause a user device to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.