Patent ID: 7693842
Filing Date: 2010-04-06
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented system for facilitating in situ search for active note taking, comprising the following components stored in a computer readable storage medium and executable by a processor: a gesture discernment component that receives a gesture from an input device identifying at least one inked handwritten script and recognizes the gesture as belonging to a set of previously persisted gestures; an embeddable object component that associates an embeddable graphical object with the at least one inked handwritten script, the embeddable graphical object being associated with recognized query text and/or a number of results returned in response to the recognized query text and additional embeddable graphical objects, the additional embeddable graphical objects being associated with disparate functions; a tracking menu comprising: a handwriting digital conversion component that digitizes and analyzes the at least one inked handwritten script; and a search component that instantiates a search to return results using the digitized and analyzed at least one inked handwritten script, the results coupled with the embeddable graphical object.