Method and apparatus for providing access to and working with architectural drawings on a personal digital assistant
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1. A computer-implemented method for providing access to architectural documents comprising:
- displaying a graphical virtual hand held computing device on a display of a desktop computer;
associating one or more architectural documents with the virtual hand held computing device by graphically adding the architectural documents to the virtual hand held computing device using an input device;
annotating the one or more architectural documents on the actual hand held computing device when the actual hand computing device is not communicatively coupled to the desktop computer;
synchronizing the virtual hand held computing device with an actual hand held computing device wherein the synchronization provides that the information displayed on the virtual hand held computing device matches information displayed on the actual hand held computing device, wherein the synchronizing is performed when the actual hand held computing device is communicatively coupled to the desktop computer.
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture provide access to architectural documents in a network based on-line web based system. Servers that are accessible from the Internet maintain persistent multiple architectural documents of different media types. An online user is provided, from the servers via the Internet, a set of basic virtual design tools that have persistent properties and may be copied. The virtual design tools may also be utilized to work with the architectural documents. A workspace is also provided for viewing, accessing, and modifying the architectural documents.
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19 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method for providing access to architectural documents comprising:
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displaying a graphical virtual hand held computing device on a display of a desktop computer; associating one or more architectural documents with the virtual hand held computing device by graphically adding the architectural documents to the virtual hand held computing device using an input device; annotating the one or more architectural documents on the actual hand held computing device when the actual hand computing device is not communicatively coupled to the desktop computer; synchronizing the virtual hand held computing device with an actual hand held computing device wherein the synchronization provides that the information displayed on the virtual hand held computing device matches information displayed on the actual hand held computing device, wherein the synchronizing is performed when the actual hand held computing device is communicatively coupled to the desktop computer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. A computer-implemented apparatus for providing access to architectural documents comprising:
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a graphical virtual hand held computing device that is displayed on a display of a desktop computer; one or more architectural documents associated with the virtual hand held computing device, wherein the association is established by graphically adding the architectural documents to the virtual hand held computing device using an input device; wherein the one or more architectural documents are annotated on the actual hand held computing device when the actual hand computing device is not communicatively coupled to the desktop computer; wherein the hand held computing device is synchronized with an actual hand held computing device wherein a synchronization process ensures that information displayed on the virtual hand held computing device matches information displayed on the actual hand held computing device, wherein the synchronizing is performed when the actual hand held computing device is communicatively coupled to the desktop computer. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. An article of manufacture comprising a non-transitory program storage device readable by a computer, tangibly embodying at least one program of instructions executable by the computer to perform method steps of providing access to architectural documents, the method steps comprising:
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displaying a graphical virtual hand held computing device on a display of a desktop computer; associating one or more architectural documents with the virtual hand held computing device by graphically adding the architectural documents to the virtual hand held computing device using an input device; annotating the one or more architectural documents on the actual hand held computing device when the actual hand computing device is not communicatively coupled to the desktop computer; synchronizing the virtual hand held computing device with an actual hand held computing device wherein the synchronization provides that the information displayed on the virtual hand held computing device matches information displayed on the actual hand held computing device, wherein the synchronizing is performed when the actual hand held computing device is communicatively coupled to the desktop computer. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A computer-implemented method for capturing a screen image comprising:
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displaying, on a display device via a desktop computer, a virtual desktop comprised of one or more windows; activating a command to capture an image; in response to the command; changing a cursor to a capture cursor; defining, via the capture cursor, an area of the virtual desktop to be captured; capturing the defined area; and inserting the captured defined area into a workspace as a bitmap image. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19)
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