42. The system of claim 1 , wherein the gesture engine generates the protoevent by generating at least one data sequence comprising gestural event data specifying the gestural event and state information of the gestural event, and forming a data capsule to include the at least one data sequence, the data capsule having a data structure comprising an application-independent representation of the at least one data sequence.
42. The system of claim 1 , wherein the gesture engine generates the protoevent by generating at least one data sequence comprising gestural event data specifying the gestural event and state information of the gestural event, and forming a data capsule to include the at least one data sequence, the data capsule having a data structure comprising an application-independent representation of the at least one data sequence. 48. The system of claim 42 , comprising: generating at least one offset; and forming the data capsule to include the at least one offset.