Patent attributes
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for processing multi-gesture sequences in a collaborative environment. It provides a method for cascading two or more gestures performed by one or more users at one or more interactive display devices, into a single compound gesture delivering events to a persistent first gesture, that establishes the owning context. The invention in one aspect increases the variety of ways a single user can interact with a piece of digital content by increasing the gesture vocabulary beyond simple single gesture interactions. Further, it delivers the ability to express complex contextual relationships directly among multiple pieces of content, among multiple interactive display devices, and among multiple users, generating expanded opportunities to route events across physically separated devices, and distances, that deliver greater control of content flow. This provides a substantially more direct method over current practice of selecting content, then triggering actions based on traditional menu and toolbar controls.
