Method and system for copying a freeform digital ink mark on an object to a related object
AssigneesFuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Xerox Corporation
InventorsGene Golovchinsky, Morgan N Price, William N Schilit
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Abstract
Freeform digital ink marks on an object are copied onto other objects that are related to the object. An embodiment of the invention copies freeform digital ink mark on terms in an index to corresponding instances of those terms in documents upon which the index is based. The instances of the freeform digital ink marks enable a user of the electronic system of the invention to quickly and easily comprehend the organization of a document and to navigate and search a document.
Claims60
A system for copying at least one freeform digital ink mark made on at least one first object to at least one second object which is related to the at least one first object, the system comprising:
- a user interface for receiving the at least one freeform digital ink mark relative to the at least one first object;
- a processor that identifies the at least one second object as being related to the at least one first object;
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- a display that displays a copy of the at least one freeform digital ink mark relative to a display of the at least one second object, wherein the processor distinguishes between the at least one freeform digital ink mark relative to the first and second objects to provide different functions for each distinguished at lest one first and at least one second object.
A method for copying at least one freeform digital ink mark made relative to at least one first object to at least one second object which is related to the at least one first object, the method comprising:
- receiving the at least one freeform digital ink mark relative to the at least one first object;
- identifying the at least one second object as being related to the at least one first object;
- displaying a copy of the at least one freeform digital ink mark relative to the at least one second object, and distinguishing between the at least one freeform digital ink mark relative to the at least one first object and the at least one second object to provide different functions for each distinguished at least one first and at least one second object.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.