Patent ID: 9696810
Date: 2017-07-04
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K

Claim:
1. A method of managing virtual ink in structured formats, comprising: recognizing a plurality of content types of virtual ink, wherein the plurality of content types comprises text, a table, a list, and a shape; receiving, by a computing device, virtual ink; determining, by a computing device, a content type of the virtual ink, wherein the content type is one of the plurality of content types; based on the determined content type, recognizing, by the computing device, that the virtual ink can be associated with a content format for an application; in response to recognizing that the virtual ink can be associated with the content format for the application, automatically generating a suggestion prompt, by the computing device, that provides an option to convert the virtual ink into the associated content format for the application; and converting, by the computing device, the at least one of the plurality of inputs of the virtual ink into the associated content format for the application when the option to convert is selected.