Patent ID: 6826551
Filing Date: 2004-11-30
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A system for producing a contextual electronic message from an input received by a handwriting capture device, said system comprising:a handwriting capture device capable of receiving and capturing an electronic handwriting input; a user interface adapted to interact with a user, the user interface being capable of receiving a user input to initiate a processing function; a central processing unit in communication with the handwriting capture device and the user interface, the central processing unit being capable of determining the context of the handwriting input and application-specific information associated therewith, the central processing unit also being capable of processing the handwriting input in accordance with at least one of the context and the initiated processing function to produce a contextual electronic message, the contextual electronic message comprising at least one of a portion of the application-specific information and a portion of the handwriting input; a communications interface In communication with the central processing unit and adapted to interact with a message recipient through a communications link such that the electronic message is transmittable thereby; and a computer software program product executing in at least one of the handwriting capture device and the central processing unit, the computer program product for capturing the handwriting input, determining the context thereof, determining the application-specific information associated with the handwriting input context, processing the handwriting input according to the context and the initiated processing function to produce the corresponding contextual electronic message, and transmitting the message via the communications interface, wherein the computer program product is capable of using the application-specific information to determine a status of the message recipient prior to transmitting the electronic message.