Patents by Inventor David T. Santoro

David T. Santoro has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Control of a device using gestures
    Patent number: 8875059
    Abstract: In an operating system running on a processing device, detecting a gesture input via a user interface; identifying an operating system operation that corresponds to the gesture; performing the operating system operation; identifying an application running on the operating system that has subscribed to gesture input; and passing data corresponding to the gesture to the application for use by the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: David T. Santoro
  • Control of a device using gestures
    Patent number: 8793624
    Abstract: In an operating system running on a processing device, detecting a gesture input via a user interface; identifying an operating system operation that corresponds to the gesture; performing the operating system operation; identifying an application running on the operating system that has subscribed to gesture input; and passing data corresponding to the gesture to the application for use by the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventor: David T. Santoro
  • CONTROL OF A DEVICE USING GESTURES
    Publication number: 20120297348
    Abstract: In an operating system running on a processing device, detecting a gesture input via a user interface; identifying an operating system operation that corresponds to the gesture; performing the operating system operation; identifying an application running on the operating system that has subscribed to gesture input; and passing data corresponding to the gesture to the application for use by the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventor: David T. Santoro
  • CONTROL OF A DEVICE USING GESTURES
    Publication number: 20120293421
    Abstract: In an operating system running on a processing device, detecting a gesture input via a user interface; identifying an operating system operation that corresponds to the gesture; performing the operating system operation; identifying an application running on the operating system that has subscribed to gesture input; and passing data corresponding to the gesture to the application for use by the application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2011
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Inventor: David T. Santoro