Ink divider and associated application program interface
First Claim
1. A method of making information available to an application program, comprising:
- storing a plurality of ink strokes;
issuing a divide request;
in response to the divide request, grouping the stored ink strokes into one or more groupings of strokes having at least a first predetermined granularity; and
making information regarding the one or more groupings of strokes available to the application program, wherein the information made available to the application program includes information indicating a number of groupings of strokes having the first predetermined granularity.
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Abstract
Methods for communicating between an application and an ink divider object (which stores ink strokes to be divided into groups) may include: (a) issuing a divide request to the ink divider object, optionally by the application; (b) in response to the divide request, calling a divide method, which groups the stored ink strokes into one or more groupings of strokes having a first predetermined granularity (e.g., words, lines, paragraphs, sentences, drawings, etc.); and (c) making information regarding the one or more groupings of strokes available to the application. This “information” made available to the application may include, for example, the actual groupings of the strokes, the number of stroke groupings having the first predetermined granularity, machine generated text corresponding to the stroke groupings, or the like. The results of the divide method may be stored in an ink division result object. In some examples, the ink division result object may include the originally divided strokes and allow retrieval of groupings of strokes of various different granularities. This invention also relates to systems for performing the above methods and various data structures used in performing these methods.
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40 Claims
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1. A method of making information available to an application program, comprising:
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storing a plurality of ink strokes; issuing a divide request; in response to the divide request, grouping the stored ink strokes into one or more groupings of strokes having at least a first predetermined granularity; and making information regarding the one or more groupings of strokes available to the application program, wherein the information made available to the application program includes information indicating a number of groupings of strokes having the first predetermined granularity. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing a method of making information available to an application program, the method comprising:
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storing a plurality of ink strokes; receiving a divide request; in response to the divide request, grouping the stored ink strokes into one or more groupings of strokes having at least a first predetermined granularity; making information regarding the one or more groupings of strokes available to the application program, wherein the information regarding the one or more groupings of strokes includes information indicating a number of groupings of strokes having the first predetermined granularity. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A method of communicating between an application and an ink divider object, the ink divider object storing ink strokes to be divided into groups, comprising:
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issuing a divide request to the ink divider object; in response to the divide request, calling a divide method, which groups the stored ink strokes into one or more groupings of strokes having at least a first predetermined granularity; and making information regarding the one or more groupings of strokes available to the application, wherein the information regarding the one or more groupings of strokes includes information indicating a number of groupings of strokes having the first predetermined granularity. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for performing a method of communicating between an application and an ink divider object, the ink divider object storing ink strokes to be divided into groups, the method comprising:
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issuing a divide request to the ink divider object; in response to the divide request, calling a divide method, which groups the stored ink strokes into one or more groupings of strokes having at least a first predetermined granularity; and making information regarding the one or more groupings of strokes available to the application, wherein the information regarding the one or more groupings of strokes includes information indicating a number of groupings of strokes having the first predetermined granularity. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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