Patent Document ID: 10037137
Application ID: 14580522

Base Claim:
1. A method, comprising: presenting, on an input and display device, two or more adjacent input fields for an underlying application; detecting, using the input and display device, one or more handwriting input strokes provided to an input field overlay application, wherein the input field overlay application encompasses the two or more adjacent input fields and wherein at least a portion of the one or more handwriting input strokes are detected outside a boundary of the two or more adjacent input fields; determining, using a processor, an input field targeting characteristic based on the one or more handwriting input strokes, wherein the input field targeting characteristic identifies one of the two or more adjacent input fields for insertion of the one or more handwriting input strokes; selecting the identified one of the two or more adjacent input fields as a target input field based on the input field targeting characteristic; and inserting a converted form of the one or more handwriting input strokes into the target input field.

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Claim 9:
9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising providing an indication of the target input field.