Patents by Inventor Vettakkorumakankavu S. Umamaheswaran

Vettakkorumakankavu S. Umamaheswaran 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).

  • Touchscreen oriented input integrated with enhanced four-corner indexing
    Patent number: 10671272
    Abstract: A method, program product, and system for inputting Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) characters into a touchscreen-enabled device is provided. The touchscreen-enabled device receives a plurality of finger touch events. Each of the plurality of finger touch events is a CJK text input stroke associated with a corner of the touchscreen-enabled device. A finger touch movement direction on the touchscreen-enabled device is determined for each of the plurality of finger touch events. In response to determining the finger touch movement direction, the finger touch movement direction associated with each of the plurality of finger touch events is converted to a numeric index value. The corner that is activated by each of the plurality of finger touch events is determined and associated to the numeric index value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Su Liu, Vettakkorumakankavu S. Umamaheswaran, Cheng Xu
  • TOUCHSCREEN ORIENTED INPUT INTEGRATED WITH ENHANCED FOUR-CORNER INDEXING
    Publication number: 20170131890
    Abstract: A method, program product, and system for inputting Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) characters into a touchscreen-enabled device is provided. The touchscreen-enabled device receives a plurality of finger touch events. Each of the plurality of finger touch events is a CJK text input stroke associated with a corner of the touchscreen-enabled device. A finger touch movement direction on the touchscreen-enabled device is determined for each of the plurality of finger touch events. In response to determining the finger touch movement direction, the finger touch movement direction associated with each of the plurality of finger touch events is converted to a numeric index value. The corner that is activated by each of the plurality of finger touch events is determined and associated to the numeric index value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Su Liu, Vettakkorumakankavu S. Umamaheswaran, Cheng Xu