Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Zhigu Holdings Limited

Microsoft Corporation

Thomas R Wick

Adrian James Garside

Steve Dodge

Takanobu Murayama

Robert L Chambers

Todd A Torset

Kyril Feldman

Tobias Zielinski

Jeffrey West Pettiross

Donald D Karlov

Erik Michael Geidl

Luis M Huapaya

Leroy B Keely

Bodin Dresevic

Jan-Kristian Markiewicz

Sashi Raghupathy

Richard Jennings Duncan

Alex Jacob Simmons

Peter Loren Engrav

David Bargeron

Zoltan C Szilagyi

Kevin Phillip Paulson

Herry Sutanto

Michael Shilman

Tracy Dianne Schultz

Timothy H Kannapel

Tobiasz Alexander Zielinski

Jamie N Wakeam

Jerome J Turner

Todd M Landstad

Kentaro Urata

Susan E Dziadosz

Krishna Kotipali

Thomas H Alphin

Erik M Geidl

Jeffrey W Pettiross

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

Textboxes are provided to support both standard textbox operations and handwriting input. A textbox may be displayed as a standard textbox, receive input from a keyboard, a pointing device (e.g., a mouse), and/or a handheld writing device (e.g., an electronic pen or stylus), and interpret the input to perform standard textbox operations. Based on various user actions, the textbox is displayed as an enlarged textbox that provides a writing surface for receiving input from the handheld writing device that is interpreted as handwriting input. Text is recognized from the handwriting input, and the text from the enlarged textbox is synchronized with the textbox.

Incorporated handwriting input experience for textboxes

A transparent graphical user interface that overlays the user interfaces of other applications. The transparent user interface receives handwriting input and displays handwriting objects represented by handwriting input received in the area of the transparent handwriting interface. The transparent user interface of the invention can be expanded to include most of the display area of a computer, thereby allowing the user to write anywhere within the display area. This also allows the user to write multiple lines of text. Additionally, because the user interface is transparent, it allows the user to see the underlying graphical user interfaces for other applications, including applications that receive text recognized from the handwriting input written into the transparent handwriting interface. Further the transparent interface allows the user to interact with underlying graphical user interfaces.

Write anywhere tool

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

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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