Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Allison Smedley

Elise Leigh Livingston

Charles Cummins

Daniel Yancy Parish

Adam Samuel Riddle

Robin Winter Troy

L Tucker Hatfield

Zhouying Fan

Systems and methods for sending an electronic message including digital ink. One system includes at least one electronic processor. The at least one electronic processor is configured to receive the digital ink for inclusion in the electronic message, determine positional information for the digital ink, the positional information representing a position of the digital ink within the electronic message relative to a position of at least one additional object within the electronic message, and send the digital ink and the positional information as part of the electronic message.

Preserving digital ink spatial relationships in electronic messages

Systems, methods, and software are disclosed herein for presenting an overlay canvas in response to receiving an editing gesture to existing text on a canvas. In an implementation, user input is received comprising an inking gesture associated with existing text displayed on a canvas in a user interface. The inking gesture is then determined to comprise any of a plurality of editing gestures. In response to the inking gesture comprising an editing gesture, an overlay canvas is presented above the canvas in the user interface. Additional user input is received comprising inking on the overlay canvas. The inking is then incorporated into the existing text on the canvas.

Presenting an overlay canvas to ink edit typed text

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Issaquah, WA, United States of America

Allison Smedley