Patent ID: 8074173

Claim:
A method of associating input inputted on a touch-sensitive input area of a portable computing device with content of an application on a second computing device comprising: displaying the content on the second computing device; communicating learning metadata to the portable computing device wherein the learning metadata comprises metadata used by the mobile computing device to associate the input with the content of the application, the input comprising a hand-drawn graphic inputted in the touch-sensitive input area of the portable computing device; receiving data from the portable computing device wherein the data comprises: the input from the portable computing device at an input point wherein the input point comprises a point of progress of the content of the application; and input metadata relating the content of the application being displayed with the input point; and storing the data from the portable computing device in a memory on the second computing device; and using the input metadata to select the application and to display the input within the content in a window on the second computing device at the input point, and allowing the input to be selected, edited, and stored as edited input.