Mobile data and handwriting screen capture and forwarding

• US 8,330,773 B2
• Filed: 11/21/2006
• Issued: 12/11/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Olsen, Rolf, Munck, Mette Grimm, Nielsen, Amdi Amfred, Jensen, Christian Bøgh, Tørning, Kristian
• Primary Examiner(s): McDowell, Jr., Maurice L
• Application Number:
  US11/562,014
• Publication Number:
  US 20080119235A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,212 Days
• Field of Search: 345/619, 715/230
• US Class Current: 345/619
• 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 having a display screen and a memory containing content currently displayed on the display screen, comprising:

a memory storing computer-executable instructions of;

an application that displays current content on the display screen;

an interface component that

receives from a user of the portable device an indication to annotate the current content on the display screen; and

after receiving the indication to annotate, receives annotation data related to the current content of the display screen;

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

displaying the annotation data over the current content of the display screen to append the annotated data with the current content and

performing a screen capture to collect from the memory the annotated current content currently displayed on the display screen as the annotated screen snap shot of the display; and

a communication component for transmitting the annotated screen shot to a disparate device; and

a processor that executes the computer-executable instructions stored in the memory.

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 screen 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, 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.

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

12. The system of claim 11, 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.

13. The system of claim 1, the display screen 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.

14. A computer-implemented method that facilitates manipulating data associated with a portable device having a display screen and a memory containing content currently displayed on the display screen, comprising:

displaying data as current content on the display screen of the portable device, wherein the data is stored in the memory containing content currently displayed on the display screen;

selecting an annotation data format for annotating the displayed current content;

initiating data capture in the selected annotation data format to capture data as an annotation for the displayed current content;

creating an annotated screen snap shot based upon the captured data by performing a screen capture to collect a screen snap shot of the displayed current content from the memory containing content currently displayed on the display screen and appending the collected screen snap shot with the captured data; and

transmitting the annotated screen snap shot to a disparate device for storage and display.

15. The method of claim 14, 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.

16. The method of claim 14, 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.

17. The method of claim 14, 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.

18. A computer storage device containing computer-executable instructions of a computer-implemented system that facilitates communicating data utilizing a portable device having a display screen and a memory containing content currently displayed on the display screen, comprising:

a component that displays current content on a display screen associated with the portable device;

a component that receives annotation data related to the display associated with a portable device, the annotated data to be associated with the displayed current content of the display screen;

a component that displays the received annotation data on the display as an annotation of the current content of the display screen;

a component that appends a screen snap shot corresponding to the current content of the display screen with annotated data by performing a screen capture of the current content along with the annotated data that is displayed on the display screen by collecting from the memory content currently displayed on the display screen;

a component that creates an annotated screen snap shot based upon the screen shot appended with the annotated data; and

a component that stores to annotated screen snap shot.

19. The computer storage device of claim 18 including a component that transmits the annotated screen snap shot to a disparate device.

20. The computer storage device of claim 18 wherein the component that receives the annotation data receives from a user an indication to annotate the current content, receives from the user an indication of an annotation data format, and collects from the user annotation data in the annotation data format.