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Article: California Inventors Develop User-Interface Control Surface
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- October 25, 2008
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ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 25 -- Andrew James Wild of Van Nuys, Calif., Robert Charles Boyer of Cupertino, Calif., Martin Kloiber of Portola Valley, Calif., and Steven H Milne of Palo Alto, Calif., have developed a widely applicable control surface.
According to the abstract released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control surface has one or more soft devices for which functionality may be assigned, a central processing unit, including operating code, for managing at least functionality of the soft devices on the control surface, and a network connection for connecting to one or more computerized appliances. The control code assigns individual ones of the one or more soft devices ...