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| United States Patent | 5,970,455 |
| Wilcox , et al. | October 19, 1999 |
An electronic notebook assigns properties to digital ink of note marks and keywords to digital pages. The properties indicate the type of note mark and the keywords indicate general content of the note marks on a digital page. The notebook also synchronizes audio data with the note marks and permits audio highlighting. The electronic notebook provides an updatable database of note marks and audio that is capable of being searched based on the properties, keywords, and audio highlights.
| Inventors: | Wilcox; Lynn D. (Portola Valley, CA); Schilit; William N. (Palo Alto, CA); Sawhney; Nitin (Cambridge, MA); Sullivan; Joseph W. (Portola Valley, CA); Bickmore; Timothy W. (Sacramento, CA) |
| Assignee: | Xerox Corporation (Stamford, CT); Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd. (Tokyo, JP) |
| Appl. No.: | 821311 |
| Filed: | March 20, 1997 |
| Current U.S. Class: | 704/270; 704/278 |
| Intern'l Class: | G10L 003/00 |
| Field of Search: | 704/260,270,275-278 345/326 707/200,500,501,530 |
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