Patent ID: 6493736
Filing Date: 2002-12-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A computerized method for providing writing space within text that includes one or more of ink stroke, binary encoded character, or bitmapped image glyphs using a graphical input device on a dynamic document display, the method comprising:displaying one or more lines of text on the document display; entering a command to open a writing space at a user-determined location along a selected one of said lines, the computer and document display being responsive to open an amount of added space at said location in the selected line including shifting any pre-existing text in the line on one side of said location in a direction along the line away from said location, the computer and document display being responsive to wrap any words shifted past the end of the line to a successive line; entering ink strokes with the input device into the added space; sensing a predetermined user action, the computer and document display being responsive to remove excess added writing space.