Caps lock notification
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsCary L. Bates, Gilford F. Martino, John M. Santosuosso
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Abstract
A Caps Lock notification method, system, mechanism, algorithm, and computer program product. A determination is made as to whether a Caps Lock key of a computer keyboard is in an error state, based on ascertaining whether a first condition has been satisfied. If it is so determined that the Caps Lock key is in an error state, then a signal is generated to communicate to a user at the computer keyboard that the Caps Lock key is in the error state. The signal may be a visual signal, an audible signal, a tactile signal, an auditory signal, or a combination thereof. Satisfaction of a second condition may be used to disable the signal.
Claims20
A Caps Lock notification method, comprising:
- determining that a Caps Lock key of a computer keyboard is in an error state, based on determining that a first condition has been satisfied;
- generating an error signal in response to the determining that the Caps Lock key is in the error state;
- ascertaining whether a second condition has occurred after the generating;
- and
- if said ascertaining has ascertained that the second condition has occurred then disabling the error signal in response to said ascertaining without changing the error state.
A computer program product comprising:
- a computer usable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein for controlling a Caps Lock error state, wherein the computer readable program code comprises an algorithm adapted to:
- determine that a Caps lock key of a computer keyboard is in an error state, based on determining that a first condition has been satisfied;
- cause generation of an error signal if the algorithm so determines that the Caps Lock key is in the error state;
- ascertain whether a second condition has occurred after the generation of the error signal;
- and
- disable the error signal without changing the error state in response to having ascertained that the second condition has occurred.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.