Patent ID: 8181103

Claim:
A computer-implemented method of linking an annotation with annotated words represented by digital ink strokes, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of digital ink strokes; classifying at least some of the plurality of digital ink strokes as word digital ink strokes associated with words; classifying at least one of the plurality of digital ink strokes as the annotation; anchoring the at least one of the digital ink strokes of the annotation to a subset of the word digital ink strokes to create anchored word digital ink strokes that correspond to the annotated words that are annotated by and associated with the annotation; breaking the annotation into two separate annotations responsive to receiving a command to delete a portion of the annotated words that are between other portions of the annotated words, each of the two separate annotations maintaining an associated previously anchored portion of the anchored word digital ink strokes associated with annotated words that were not deleted; classifying a first of one or more digital ink strokes as a first of the two separate annotations and a second of one or more digital ink strokes as a second of the two separate annotations; and resizing the first and the second of the two separate annotations based on a size of the annotated words that were not deleted that are associated with the first and the second of the two separate annotations.