Patent ID: 9019247
Filing Date: 2015-04-28
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: modifying information stored in storage by modifying information on a hand writable physical medium with a digital pen, wherein the hand writable physical medium comprises a predetermined field including one or more item field name and one or more first region for information entry associated with the one or more item field name, and the information stored in the storage includes attribute values corresponding to each of the one or more item field name of the physical medium, and attribute values corresponding to information entered into each of the one or more first region, the modifying comprising: detecting, by an apparatus communicable with the digital pen, that a modification symbol is added, by using the digital pen, to information which has been entered into any of the one or more first region in the predetermined field; identifying, based on detecting that the modification symbol is added, a pertinent item field name among the one or more item field names, wherein the pertinent item field name is associated with the one or more first region into which information to be modified is entered, based on position information of the digital pen when the modification symbol is added; detecting, by the apparatus communicable with the digital pen, that information is entered into a second region for information entry by using the digital pen, the second region being different from the one or more first region associated with the identified item field name; determining that the information entered into the second region includes information associated with the pertinent item field name; and replacing, based on the determining and the detecting that the information is entered into the second region, an attribute value in the storage medium corresponding to the information that has been entered into the one or more first region and associated with the pertinent item field name, with an attribute value corresponding to the information that has been entered into the second region.