MOBILE DATA AND HANDWRITING SCREEN CAPTURE AND FORWARDING

• US 20080119235A1
• Filed: 11/21/2006
• Published: 05/22/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Torning, Kristian, Munck, Mette Grimm, Olsen, Rolf, Nielsen, Amdi Arnfred, Jensen, Christian Bogh
• Granted Patent: US 8,330,773 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/566
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/169 Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 11/60 Editing figures and text; Combining figures or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality

Abstract

The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates communicating data utilizing a portable device. An interface component can receive annotation data related to a display associated with a portable device. An annotation component can append a screen shot corresponding to the display with the annotated data to create an annotated screen shot.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates communicating data utilizing a portable device, comprising:

an interface component that receives annotation data related to a display associated with a portable device; and

an annotation component that appends a screen shot corresponding to the display with the annotated data to create an annotated screen shot.

2. The system of claim 1, the annotation data is at least one of the following:

audio data, video data, an addition of a graphic, and a deletion of a graphic.

3. The system of claim 1, the portable device is at least one of a mobile device, a cellular phone, a smart phone, a text messenger, a hand-held device, a mini-computer, a portable digital assistant (PDA), a hand-held computing device, a satellite radio, a satellite device, a global positioning system (GPS), a GPS device, a gaming device, a portable media device, a mobile communication device, and a portable device that can display data.

4. The system of claim 1, further comprising a tools component that collects annotation data related to the display on the portable device.

5. The system of claim 4, the tools component collects annotation data in relation to at least one of the following:

audio data, voice data, video data, live-stream data, an addition of a graphic, a deletion of a graphic, and an editing of the displayed data.

6. The system of claim 5, the graphic is at least one of handwritten and typed.

7. The system of claim 6, the graphic is at least one of a symbol, a letter, a shape, a line, a portion of a line, a portion of a graphic, and a portion of an image.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a screen capture component that captures at least one screen snap shot associated with the displayed data on the portable device.

9. The system of claim 8, the screen capture component captures a plurality of screen snap shots that correlate to the collection of annotation data related to at least one of video data and live-stream data.

10. The system of claim 1, further comprising a communication component that transmits the annotated screen shot to at least one of a disparate device and a disparate entity.

11. The system of claim 10, at least one of the disparate device and the disparate entity is at least one of a computer, a laptop, a machine, a disparate portable device, a network, a server, a web site, an email address, a hard drive, a hand-held, a mobile device, a cellular phone, a smart phone, a text messenger, a mini-computer, a portable digital assistant (PDA), a hand-held computing device, a satellite radio, a satellite device, a global positioning system (GPS), a GPS device, a gaming device, a portable media device, a mobile communication device, a device that displays data, and an entity that stores data.

12. The system of claim 1, the portable device further comprising a data input that receives annotation data.

13. The system of claim 12, the data input is at least one of a microphone, a video camera, a camera, a digital camera, a stylus, a touchpad, a tablet, a touch-screen, an interactive screen, a mouse, and a display.

14. The system of claim 1, the display is at least one of a monitor, a liquid crystal display (LCD), a plasma screen, a cathode ray tube (CRT) screen, a flat-screen, a television, a digital micro-mirror component, and a display component that displays data in the portable device.

15. A computer-implemented method that facilitates manipulating data associated with a portable device, comprising:

displaying data on a portable device;

selecting an annotation data format;

initiating data capture in the selected annotation data format; and

creating an annotated screen shot based upon the captured data.

16. The method of claim 15, the annotation data format is at least one of audio data, voice data, video data, live-stream data, an addition of a graphic, a deletion of a graphic, and an editing of the displayed data.

17. The method of claim 15, the portable device is at least one of a mobile device, a cellular phone, a smart phone, a text messenger, a hand-held device, a mini-computer, a portable digital assistant (PDA), a hand-held computing device, a satellite radio, a satellite device, a global positioning system (GPS), a GPS device, a gaming device, a portable media device, a mobile communication device, and a portable device that can display data.

18. The method of claim 15, further comprising communicating the annotated screen shot to a disparate device.

19. The method of claim 18, the disparate device is at least one of a computer, a laptop, a machine, a disparate portable device, a network, a server, a web site, an email address, a hard drive, a hand-held, a mobile device, a cellular phone, a smart phone, a text messenger, a mini-computer, a portable digital assistant (PDA), a hand-held computing device, a satellite radio, a satellite device, a global positioning system (GPS), a GPS device, a gaming device, a portable media device, a mobile communication device, a device that displays data, and an entity that stores data.

20. A computer-implemented system that facilitates communicating data utilizing a portable device, comprising:

means for receiving annotation data related to a display associated with a portable device;

means for appending a screen shot corresponding to the display with annotated data; and

means for creating an annotated screen shot based upon the screen shot and annotated data.