Programmatical access to handwritten electronic ink in a tree-based rendering environment

US7499058B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Shawn A. Van Ness · Renton, US
• Sam J. George · Kenmore, US
• Stefan Wick · Oberbuchsiten, CH
• Brian Ewanchuk · Redmond, US
• Todd A. Torset · Woodinville, US
• Wayne Zeng · Sammamish, US
• Xiao Tu · Bellevue, US
• Koji Kato · Sendai, JP
• Alexander J. Kolmykov-Zotov · Sammamish, US
• Timothy H. Kannapel · Bellevue, US
• Manoj K. Biswas · Bellevue, US
• Kevin Welton · Redmond, US
• Richmond Lough · Woodinville, US
• Chandramouli Kompella · Sammamish, US
• Hongan Wang · Ankang, CN
• Steven P. Dodge · Burnaby, CA
• Todd Landstad · Redmond, US
• Shiraz Somji · Kenmore, US
• Vladimir Smirnov · Bothell, US
• Stephen Fisher · Kenmore, US
• Rudolph Balaz · Redmond, US
• Michael Russell · Las Vegas, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 24, 2006
• Grant date: Mar 3, 2009
• Expiry date: Apr 24, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06F3/04883
• WIPO field: Computer technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method for performing ink related operations in a tree-based presentation system is described. Ink-related programmatical interfaces may relate to interactions with a stroke object, a stroke collection object, and ink input elements.