Processing user input events in a web browser

• Main Authors: FIDLER ELI JOSHUA, TREAT ADAM CHESTER, TAPUSKA DAVID FRANCIS, NILSSON KARL ARVID, MAK GENEVIEVE ELIZABETH
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 27.10.2015
• Subjects: CALCULATING; COMPUTING; COUNTING; ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYSICS

A method and computing device are provided for processing user events received via a user interface, such as a touchscreen, in multiple threads. When a user event is received for a target element in a webpage, the user event is dispatched to both a main browser thread and a secondary thread. The sec...