Gregory H Manto

7284200, Oct 16, 2007

Nov 10, 2002

10/291214

Michael S. Bernstein - Seattle WA, US
Vikram Madan - Bellevue WA, US
Gregory H. Manto - Sammamish WA, US
Gerhard A. Schobbe - Bellevue WA, US
Shawna Swanson - Issaquah WA, US
Kurt A. Geisel - Redmond WA, US
Steve E. Weil - Bellevue WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 15/00

715541

A system and method for associating an ink title with a note is described. A user may hand write a title for a document or note and have the handwritten ink title be displayed when interacting with the system when, for example, viewing the contents of a directory, reviewing the results of a search, viewing a list of most recently used documents, viewing a history of which documents were used, and the like. The use of a handwritten ink title speeds a user's recall of the content of the note over textual titles.

7379928, May 27, 2008

Feb 13, 2003

10/367198

Ryan E. Cukierman - Redmond WA, US
Vikram Madan - Bellevue WA, US
Gregory H. Manto - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06F 17/30

707 3, 707 4, 707 5

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.

7515751, Apr 7, 2009

Sep 11, 2006

11/530854

Charlton E. Lui - Redmond WA, US
Gregory H. Manto - Redmond WA, US
Vikram Madan - Bellevue WA, US
Ryan E. Cukierman - Redmond WA, US
Jon E. Clark - Livermore CA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G06K 9/18

382186, 382187, 382218, 382229, 707 3, 707E17069

In a computing device, a method and system for searching for matching ink words or phrases, by comparing a given search term of at least one word (and possibly alternates) with the words in a document, including recognized ink words and any possible alternates for those recognized words as returned by a recognizer. Various matching tests are possible because of the use of alternates, which also may have corresponding probability rankings that may influence the search. Searching may occur in actively edited ink documents, or the recognition results may be saved as saved search file data that can be searched independent of recognition.

20030101163, May 29, 2003

Jun 21, 2002

10/177480

Charlton Lui - Redmond WA, US
Gregory Manto - Redmond WA, US
Vikram Madan - Bellevue WA, US
Ryan Cukierman - Redmond WA, US
Jon Clark - Livermore CA, US

MICROSOFT CORPORATION - REDMOND WA

G06F007/00

707/001000

In a computing device, a method and system for searching for matching ink words or phrases, by comparing a given search term of at least one word (and possibly alternates) with the words in a document, including recognized ink words and any possible alternates for those recognized words as returned by a recognizer. Various matching tests are possible because of the use of alternates, which also may have corresponding probability rankings that may influence the search. Searching may occur in actively edited ink documents, or the recognition results may be saved as saved search file data that can be searched independent of recognition.

20040196306, Oct 7, 2004

Apr 4, 2003

10/407532

Gregory Manto - Sammamish WA, US
Steve Weil - Bellevue WA, US
Michael Williams - Seattle WA, US
Shawna Swanson - Issaquash WA, US
Vikram Madan - Bellevue WA, US
Michael Bernstein - Seattle WA, US
Kevin Paulson - Redmond WA, US
Roger Wynn - Redmond WA, US

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

G09G005/00

345/700000

Various techniques and tools are described for allowing a user to flag desired content within a data file. More particularly, a user can select content within a file, such as an image or a group of electronic ink strokes. The user can then flag that selected content so that it may later be easily retrieved. The flag may simply mark the position of selected content, or the flag may be associated with the selected content such that, if the content is moved to another location or even to another file, the flag will remain associated with the selected content, and can continue to be used to easily retrieve the selected content.