Patent ID: 6687876
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A method for maintaining an indication of a logical relationship of at least one freeform digital ink annotation to at least one object in a first view as a position of the at least one object in the first view changes, the indication including a layout relationship of the at least one freeform digital ink annotation to the at least one object, the method comprising:automatically mapping the logical relationship of the at least one freeform digital ink annotation to the at least one object based upon the layout relationship of the at least one freeform digital ink annotation and the at least one object in the first view by splitting the at least one freeform digital ink annotation into a plurality of substrokes, each substroke corresponding to the portion of the annotation that is in proximity to an object, and creating an anchor for the at least one freeform digital annotation; and, rendering the at least one freeform digital ink annotation in response to the generation of the second view, the layout relationship of the at least one freeform digital ink annotation and the at least one object in the second view being rendered based upon the mapped logical relationship of the at least one freeform digital ink annotation to the at least one object in the first view.