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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 05, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2010
Charles M. Macinnis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joshua John Forman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Anne K Halsall, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott William Kyle, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Robert Cromwell, Seattle, WA (US);
Kevin Ballard, San Francisco, CA (US);
Peter S. Cho, San Francisco, CA (US);
Charles M. MacInnis, San Francisco, CA (US);
Joshua John Forman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Anne K Halsall, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott William Kyle, El Dorado Hills, CA (US);
Robert Cromwell, Seattle, WA (US);
Kevin Ballard, San Francisco, CA (US);
Peter S. Cho, San Francisco, CA (US);
Inkling Systems, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a user of a first portable digital computing device creates an annotation associated with a particular reading location within a reference document. The annotation and the reading location are shared with a second portable digital computing device storing a copy of the reference document. Using the shared information, the second device displays the reference document with the annotation shown at the reading location.