Digital Notes

• US 20090307607A1
• Filed: 06/10/2008
• Published: 12/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 06/10/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Abrahams, Steven Karl, Schauls, Troy A., Benson, Rodger W., Ray, Ethan, Roseway, Asta J., Zlateff, Carmen
• Application Number:
  US12/136,658
• Publication Number:
  US 20090307607A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/752
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0483 Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/107 Computer-aided management of electronic mailing [e-mailing]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/109 Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

Abstract

Techniques described herein allow for displaying a real-time communication client associated with a first user, the real-time communication client configured to receive an input from the first user and send, in response, a digital note to a second user. The real-time communication client may be configured to send the digital note to a desktop of the second user, a calendar of the second user, a real-time communication client of the second user, and a profile of the second user, potentially among other locations. These tools may also display, on the real-time communication client, one or more digital notes that have been sent by one or more other users and received at the real-time communication client associated with the first user. These notes may be displayed individually or collectively in the form of a notebook.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

one or more processors;

memory;

a real-time communication client, stored in the memory and executable on the one or more processors, associated with a user and configured to send and receive instant messages and send and receive digital notes; and

a location manager, stored in the memory and executable on the one or more processors, configured to;

(i) manage a location of each of the received digital notes, the locations comprising the real-time communications client of the user, a desktop of the user, and a calendar of the user;

(ii) store multiple digital notes in a notebook, the notebook being displayed on the real-time communications client; and

(iii) move a digital note from the notebook to the real-time communications client of the user, the desktop of the user, or the calendar of the user in response to receiving a user selection to move the digital note.

2. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein the digital notes comprise static content and dynamic content.

3. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein the digital notes comprise self-updating content.

4. A system as recited in claim 1, wherein the digital notes comprise text, digital photographs, hyperlinks, video clips, audio clips, and interactive content.

5. One or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed on one or more processors, perform acts comprising:

displaying a real-time communication client associated with a first user, the real-time communication client configured to receive an input from the first user and send, in response, a digital note to a second user, wherein the real-time communication client is configured to send the digital note to a desktop of the second user, a calendar of the second user, a real-time communication client of the second user, and a profile of the second user; and

displaying, on the real-time communication client, one or more digital notes that have been sent by one or more other users and received at the real-time communication client associated with the first user.

6. One or more computer-readable media as recited in claim 5, wherein the real-time communication client associated with the first user is configured to send, in response to the receiving of the input from the first user, a single digital note to the desktop of the second user, the calendar of the second user, the real-time communication client of the second user, or the profile of the second user.

7. One or more computer-readable media as recited in claim 5, wherein the real-time communication client associated with the first user is configured to send, in response to the receiving of the input from the first user, a single digital note to two or more of:

the desktop of the second user, the calendar of the second user, the real-time communication client of the second user, or the profile of the second user.

8. One or more computer-readable media as recited in claim 5, wherein the real-time communication client associated with the first user is configured to send a digital note comprising static content, dynamic content, and self-updating content.

10. One or more computer-readable media as recited in claim 5, wherein the one or more digital notes displayed on the real-time communication client appear within a notebook that is displayed on the real-time communication client, and wherein selection of the notebook allows the first user to scroll through each of the one or more digital notes.

11. One or more computer-readable media as recited in claim 5, further storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, perform acts comprising:

displaying a notebook that includes one or more digital notes that have been received by the first user;

receiving a selection of a digital note in the notebook;

in response to the receiving of the selection, tearing the selected digital note from the notebook and placing the selected digital note in another location.

12. One or more computer-readable media as recited in claim 11, wherein the another location comprises a desktop of the first user, a calendar of the first user, a calendar of the first user, or the real-time communication client of the first user.

13. One or more computer-readable media as recited in claim 5, further storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, perform acts comprising:

displaying the one or more digital notes on the real-time communication client in a compressed state;

receiving a user selection of one of the one or more digital notes;

in response to the receiving of the user selection, displaying the selected digital note in an expanded state.

17. One or more computing device comprising:

one or more processors; and

the one or more computer-readable media storing the computer-executable instructions as recited in claim 5.

9. One or more computer-readable media as recited in 5, wherein the real-time communication client associated with the first user is further configured to send, in response to receiving an input from the first user, an instant message to the second user

14. One or more computer-readable media as recited in 13, wherein the selected digital note displays, in the expanded state, content of the digital note that is not displayed in the compressed state.

15. One or more computer-readable media as recited in 14, wherein the content that is displayed in the expanded state and not in the compressed state comprises a message from a sending user to the first user.

16. One or more computer-readable media as recited in 14, wherein the selection of the digital note comprises the first user hovering a cursor over the selected digital note.

18. One or more computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed on one or more processors, perform acts comprising:

displaying a notebook associated with a user, the notebook including multiple digital notes sent over a network to the user, the digital notes configured to include static, dynamic, and self-updating content;

receiving a user selection to remove a digital note from the displayed notebook;

receiving a user selection to place the selected digital note in a location other than the displayed notebook; and

in response to the receiving of the user selections, removing the digital note from the displayed notebook and placing the selected digital note in the location other than the displayed notebook.

19. One or more computer-readable media as recited in claim 18, wherein the location other than the displayed notebook comprises a desktop of the user, a calendar of the user, a real-time communication client of the user, or a social networking profile of the user.

20. One or more computing device comprising:

one or more processors; and

the one or more computer-readable media storing the computer-executable instructions as recited in claim 18.