Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Stefan Wick

Steven P Dodge

Sam J George

Todd M Landstad

Reed L Townsend

Todd A Torset

Alexander J Zotov

Olumuyiwa M Durojaiye

Brian Ewanchuk

Koji Kato

Shawn A Van Ness

Vladimir V Smirnov

Vijayakumar Rangasamy

Alexander J Kolmykov-Zotov

Rudolph Balaz

Xiao Tu

Manoj Kumar Biswas

Joseph Stork Smith

Shiraz M Somji

Timothy H Kannapel

Stephen Alan Fisher

Jesse Bishop

Wayne Zeng

Kevin Welton

Richmond Lough

Chandramouli Kompella

Hongan Wang

Michael Russell

Methods and systems for enabling a tablet input object is described. A tablet input object can take various inputs from touch, a mouse, and a pen and send their information to an application.

Methods for allowing applications to filter out or opt into tablet input

A multi-touch plug-in system is described herein that exposes multi-touch data for web application developers to consume in a platform independent way. The multi-touch plug-in system receives platform-specific touch data from an operating system or touch hardware, interprets the platform-specific touch data to convert the platform-specific touch data to generic touch data, and provides the generic touch data to a hosted application running within a plug-in sandbox. Often, sandboxed environments only allow identified, trusted plug-ins to execute. By managing multi-touch data within a trusted plug-in, the plug-in can ensure that hosted applications are properly restricted to well-defined behavior, while still allowing rich features such as multi-touch interaction. Thus, the multi-touch plug-in system brings rich multi-touch interaction to a web browsing environment.

Touch input for hosted applications

A system for enabling a tablet input object is described. A tablet input object can take various inputs from touch, a mouse, and a pen and send their information to an application.

Mechanism for allowing applications to filter out or opt into tablet input

A process for rendering highlighter ink strokes and non-highlighter ink strokes in a non-rastering environment is described. Strokes may be grouped under a node having a predefined opacity. The strokes inherit the opacity from the node. Additionally, visuals containing highlighter strokes of the same color are grouped into collections of visuals (one collection per each highlighter color), and change the opacity of the collection (parent) visual to semi-transparent (or any other transparency value defined for the highlighter effect).

Rendering highlighting strokes

A system and method for performing ink related operations in a tree-based presentation system is described. Ink-related programmatical interfaces may relate to interactions with a stroke object, a stroke collection object, and ink input elements.

Programmatical access to handwritten electronic ink in a tree-based rendering environment

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