Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Zhigu Holdings Limited

Steve Dodge

Arin J Goldberg

Kyril Feldman

Rudolph Balaz

Manoj Kumar Biswas

Brigette Krantz

Alexander J Kolmykov-Zotov

Shenbagalakshmi Pichaiah

Robert L Chambers

Todd A Torset

Alexander G Gounares

Bodin Dresevic

Timothy H Kannapel

Jerome J Turner

Thomas R Wick

Adrian James Garside

Subha Bhattacharyay

Shiraz M Somji

Tobiasz Alexander Zielinski

Takanobu Murayama

Stephen Alan Fisher

Gregory Nicholas Hullender

Andrew L Silverman

Tobias Zielinski

Sashi Raghupathy

Zoltan C Szilagyi

Reed L Townsend

Richard Jennings Duncan

Alex Jacob Simmons

Peter Loren Engrav

David Bargeron

Matthew P Rhoten

Alexander J Zotov

Herry Sutanto

Kevin Phillip Paulson

Michael Shilman

Jamie N Wakeam

Haiyong Wang

Todd M Landstad

Kentaro Urata

Richard Kane Sailor

Sameer Shariff

Eugene A Tsimberg

Matthew Paul Rhoten

Tobiasz Zielinski

An object is associated with one or more controls in a software application. An object associated with a control determines the operation of the data entry user interface when the data entry user interface is being employed to enter data into the control. More particularly, the object may communicate interface e characteristics to a component that is responsible for providing the user interface to the user. Such a component may be, for example, a shared software module that renders the user interface on a display, receives input data from the user through the user interface, and routes the entered data to a designated destination. Alternately, the object itself may create a user interface having the specified characteristics.

Utility object for specialized data entry

A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Ink-stroke information associated with one or more data packets is received, and it is determined that the ink-stroke information comprises a gesture indication. The gesture indication is communicated to an ink collection object which causes the ink collection object to delete the ink stroke information.

Generic interface

A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is given priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to order when events occur and may be performing dynamic rendering prior to other steps.

A system and process for ensuring the smooth flow of electronic ink is described. Dynamic rendering is give priority over other event handlers. Priority may be the use of one or more queues to order when events occur and may be performing dynamic rendering prior to other steps.

Synchronization of plugins

Overlaying electronic ink over a document. A typical scenario may be where one it would be useful to mark up a document with electronic ink, such as by making handwritten comments, drawings, and the like over the underlying document. In some embodiments, a developer may easily define an inking surface, such as a transparent or opaque window, over a document. The inking surface may act as an input interface such that a user may write onto the inking surface such that is appears that the document itself is being marked up.

Overlaying electronic ink

Methods and systems are provided for automatically calibrating a pointing device, such as a stylus, with a writing surface, such as a touch screen. In one example, an automated method is implemented to calibrate the writing surface based user inputs attempting to use the computer for functions other than calibration of the writing surface. The user inputs may be, for example, a user selecting a button within a non-calibration software application. The automated method may generate a miscalibration vector based upon where the user input was received and where the user input was expected. In yet another example, a bias field may be generated for the writing surface from the collected user inputs. In yet other examples, a computing device may comprise computer-executable instructions for performing one or methods of calibrating the writing surface.

Auto-calibration of a touch screen

A control and its associated programming interface for allowing entry of electronic ink, editing and other manipulation of the ink, and/or recognition of the ink. Ink may be stored in a data structure such as an ink object that permits later retrieval by applications. As is the case with text that may be bolded, underlined, italicized, and the like, the describe control and its programming interface may permit ink information to be manipulated as easily as text, while providing the richness of handwritten ink.

Entry and editing of electronic ink

The present invention relates to interfacing with electronic ink. Ink is stored in a data structure that permits later retrieval by applications. The ink includes stroke information and may include property information. Through various programming interfaces, one may interact with the ink through methods and setting or retrieving properties. Other objects and collections may be used as well in conjunction with the ink objects.

Interfacing with ink

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for making rich, flexible, and more natural electronic ink annotations in an electronic document include creating a first context node associated with a first portion of a base portion of an electronic document; creating a second context node associated with an annotation to the base portion; and linking the second context node with the first context node.

Electronic ink processing

Display attribute modification

Memory management in a multi-threaded environment

An object is associated with one or more controls in a software application. An object associated with a control determines the operation of the data entry user interface when the data entry user interface is being employed to enter data into that control. More particularly, the object may communicate interface characteristics to a component that is responsible for providing the user interface to the user. Such a component may be, for example, a shared software module that renders the user interface on a display, receives input data from the user through the user interface, and routes the entered data to a designated destination. Alternately, the object itself may create a user interface having the specified characteristics.

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