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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2008
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2003
Ryan E. Cukierman, Redmond, WA (US);
Vikram Madan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Gregory H. Manto, Redmond, WA (US);
Ryan E. Cukierman, Redmond, WA (US);
Vikram Madan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Gregory H. Manto, Redmond, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for searching digitally annotated computer documents, including searching the annotations. An annotated document may be open for viewing by a user, or alternatively present among closed files that are searched to find files that match a query. In one implementation, the document data and the ink-annotation data exist on two separate layers, with each layer having associated text content, whether as original text or as annotations that are recognized as text. When a user issues a query to search the annotated document, the query is passed to a search engine that performs the pattern matching on the text in each layer, to produce search results. The search engine may produce a search result data structure for each match, which may be sorted with other data structures into a list, such as sorted by pages and coordinates, to present them to a user in a logical ordering.