US 11,740,726 B2
Touch sensitivity management
Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Visakhapatnam (IN); Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla, Visakhapatnam (IN); Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Kolkata (IN); and Divya Mantha, Vizag (IN)
Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Mar. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/194,407.
Prior Publication US 2022/0283664 A1, Sep. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. G06F 3/041 (2006.01)
CPC G06F 3/0416 (2013.01) [G06F 3/0418 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
receiving a set of touch history data, wherein the set of touch history data indicates a set of unintended touch interactions mapped to contextual data in which each unintended touch interaction occurs;
determining, based on an analysis of the set of touch history data, a set of touch sensitivity modification conditions, the set of touch sensitivity modification conditions specifying particular touch sensitivity modifications to be made under particular contextual conditions, wherein the set of touch sensitivity modification conditions are determined using a machine learning algorithm based on the set of touch history data;
receiving a current touch interaction from a device of a user;
analyzing, during a buffering period after receiving the current touch interaction from the device of the user and before executing a touch action corresponding to the current touch interaction, the current touch interaction to determine whether a touch sensitivity modification condition of the set of touch sensitivity modification conditions is met, wherein at least a first touch sensitivity modification condition indicates that a sensitivity of the device is increased such that an input pressure required to execute a touch action on the device is decreased in response to observing a first context of the user, wherein at least a second touch sensitivity modification condition indicates that the sensitivity of the device is decreased such that the input pressure required to execute the touch action on the device is increased in response to observing a second context of the user; and
modifying, in response to determining that the touch sensitivity modification condition is met, a touch sensitivity of the device of the user.