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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2005
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2002
Catherine C. Marshall, San Francisco, CA (US);
Frank M. Shipman, Iii, College Station, TX (US);
Gene Golovchinsky, Palo Alto, CA (US);
William N. Schilit, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kei Tanaka, Hiratsuka, JP;
Morgan N. Price, Lafayette, CA (US);
Catherine C. Marshall, San Francisco, CA (US);
Frank M. Shipman, III, College Station, TX (US);
Gene Golovchinsky, Palo Alto, CA (US);
William N. Schilit, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Kei Tanaka, Hiratsuka, JP;
Morgan N. Price, Lafayette, CA (US);
Fuji Xerox Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A system for automatic emphasis of freeform annotations contained within an electronic document is performed based on a determined importance of each annotation. The importance of each annotation is determined by a mark parser that groups, types and ranks each of the annotations. A weighted value is assigned to each grouped, ranked and typed annotation based on temporal and spatial information. The display characteristics of the weighted annotation is altered based on the weighted value.