Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Rahee Ghosh

Wei W Wang

Ankit Srivastava

Gareth Alun Jones

Jay Ongg

Darren Glenn Austin

Fanguang Kong

Yanir Shahak

Jorge Eugenio Aguirre Gonzalez

Guy Daher

Kiky Wibowo Tangerine

Mun Ying Leong

Freeform input is not native to several application or document types, but is desired by users as an input mode, especially for collaboration. Systems and methods are therefore provided to enable the insertion of an electronic collaboration workspace that accepts and stores freeform input for use as an object embeddable in various documents. An external host application provides the functionalities needed for freeform input, and the inputs may be committed to the document or stored as a separate document which may be referenced and accessed by multiple users for purposes of collaboration.

Web-based embeddable collaborative workspace

Growing community of inventors

Cambridge, MA, United States of America

Rahee Ghosh