ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,518, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Smart input devices with user behavior predictions" was invented by Rajiv Popat (Kolkata, India), Bijan Kumar Mohanty (Austin, Texas) and Hung Dinh (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes detecting an operation of an input device, obtaining a clickstream associated with a user, using information from the clickstream, generating a prediction as to a next action by the user using the input device, and presenting the prediction to the user for possible selection by the user. Selection of the prediction by the user eliminates ...