Patent ID: 7366979
Filing Date: 2008-04-29
Classification: G06F,G10L,H04L

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for annotating a document comprising: a mobile apparatus; data storage coupled to said mobile apparatus, said data storage configured to store a text document and a plurality of audio comments, each of said stored plurality of audio comments annotating said text document and being linked to said text document; a document processing engine coupled to said mobile apparatus, said document processing engine configured to obtain an audio content conversion of said stored text document and at least a subset of said stored plurality of audio comments for playback as an audio source; and an annotator coupled to said mobile apparatus; said mobile apparatus comprising: said annotator being configured to cause said new audio comment to be saved via said data storage as an annotation linked to a location in said text document based on said point in said playback specified by said user, wherein each of said plurality of audio comments annotating said text document is stored via a file structure comprising an annotations names file, said annotations names file comprising an entry for each user annotating said text document, wherein for each user identified in said annotations names file said file structure further comprises an annotations index file and an annotations file, and wherein said annotations file comprises at least one entry for a comment annotating said text document by said identified user and said annotations index file relates a location in said text document to said comment by said identified user.