Organization of handwritten notes using handwritten titles

• US 20040093565A1
• Filed: 11/10/2002
• Published: 05/13/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 11/10/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Schobbe, Gerhard A., Madan, Vikram, Swanson, Shawna, Bernstein, Michael S., Geisel, Kurt A., Manto, Gregory H., Weil, Steve E.
• Granted Patent: US 7,284,200 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/268
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/171 by use of digital ink

Abstract

A system and method for associating an ink title with a note is described. A user may hand write a title for a document or note and have the handwritten ink title be displayed when interacting with the system when, for example, viewing the contents of a directory, reviewing the results of a search, viewing a list of most recently used documents, viewing a history of which documents were used, and the like. The use of a handwritten ink title speeds a user'"'"'s recall of the content of the note over textual titles.

Claims

1. A system for storing an ink title with a note comprising:

a document editor receiving ink relating to said note;

a processor for associating the ink with a title of said note; and

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a storage storing said ink title associated with said note.

2. A system according to claim 1, wherein said ink title may be searched.

3. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a cache,

wherein said cache temporarily holds at least one ink title from said storage.

4. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a file structure,

wherein said file structure holds at least one ink title from said storage.

5. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

a database,

wherein said database holds at least one ink title from said storage.

6. The system according to claim 3, wherein said ink title from said cache may be displayed to a user when displaying information about said note.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein said storage stores said ink title independent of said note.

8. The system according to claim 1, wherein said storage stores said ink title with said note as a property of said note.

9. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

an ink title region,

wherein ink entered into said ink title region is stored as said ink title.

10. The system according to claim 1, wherein said processor uses a first line of said note as said ink title.

11. The system according to claim 1, wherein said processor uses linguistic analysis to determine words for inclusion in said ink title.

12. The system according to claim 11, wherein said linguistic analysis includes determining words in a largest print.

13. The system according to claim 11, wherein said linguistic analysis includes determining proper names.

14. A process for storing an ink title comprising the steps of:

receiving ink;

determining if said received ink is in a title area; and

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storing said received ink in said title area as said ink title.

15. The process according to claim 14, wherein said determining step further comprising the steps of:

determining a bounding box for said ink in said title area;

determining an available area for said title area; and

clipping said ink to an intersection between said bounding box and said title area.

16. The process according to claim 14, further comprising the step of:

storing said ink title as a property of said note.

17. The process according to claim 14, further comprising the step of:

storing said ink title in a cache.

18. The process according to claim 14, further comprising the step of:

storing said ink title in a database.

19. The process according to claim 14, further comprising the step of:

storing said ink title in a file structure.

20. A process for creating an ink title from an ink note comprising the steps of:

receiving ink as said ink note;

identifying at least some of said ink;

storing said identified ink as said ink title.

21. The process according to claim 20, further comprising:

determining at least one of a date and a time of the creation of said ink note;

storing a representation of said at least one of a date and a time as at least part of said ink title.

22. A process for displaying an ink title comprising the steps of:

determining if an ink title associated with a file is stored in a cache; and

displaying said ink title as a title of said file.

23. A process for displaying an ink title comprising the steps of:

determining if an ink title associated with a file is stored in a database; and

displaying said ink title as a title of said file.

24. A process for displaying an ink title comprising the steps of:

determining if an ink title associated with a file is stored in a file structure; and

displaying said ink title as a title of said file.

25. A process for displaying an ink title comprising the steps of:

retrieving an ink title from a property set of a file; and

displaying said ink title as a title of said file.

26. A process for updating a cached version of an ink title of a file comprising the steps of:

determining if an ink title is the same ink title stored in a cache;

writing said ink title to said cache if different.

27. A computer-readable medium having a data structure stored thereon, said data structure comprising:

a first region storing an note;

a second region storing a document property, said document property including an ink title of said note.

28. A computer-readable medium having a data structure stored thereon, said data structure comprising:

a first region storing an note;

a second region storing a document property, said document property including a pointer to a separately stored ink title associated with said note.

29. A computer-readable medium having a data structure stored thereon, said data structure comprising:

a first region storing an image of an ink title of a note;

a second region comprising a comment region, said comment region storing at least strokes associated said ink title.

30. A process for finding notes based on an ink title comprising the steps of:

receiving ink;

searching an ink title of one or more ink notes for said received ink;

displaying search results from said searching step.

31. The process for finding notes according to claim 30, wherein said displaying step displays said search results as a list of ink titles.

32. A system for finding notes based on an ink title comprising:

an input for receiving ink;

a storage storing an ink title associated with an ink note;

a processor for searching said storage for said received ink;

an output for outputting said search results to a display.

33. The system according to claim 32, wherein said output is used to display said search results as a list of ink titles.

34. A user interface comprising a region having a list of ink titles.

35. The user interface according to claim 34, wherein said list of ink titles is a list of search results.

36. The user interface according to claim 34, wherein said list of ink titles is a list of most recently used files.

37. The user interface according to claim 34, wherein said list of ink titles is a list of search results.