Appeal 2007-0493
Application 10/289,967
Patent 6,144,380
displaying a view of a current page of the book on the display
screen;
recognizing handwriting as character strings when said
handwriting is written in handwriting recognition fields displayed on
the screen display, the character strings being used to identify at least
one location within the book; and
displaying handwriting written on the current page of the book
after a mark-up button has been selected.
20. The method of claim 19 wherein the handwriting written
on the current page is removed when the mark-up is selected.
24. A method of searching a character string in one or more
documents with the aid of a pointer-based computer having a
processor, a memory connected to the processor, a display screen
connected to the processor, a pointer, and one or more documents
residing, at least in part, in the memory, each of the documents having
one or more content records, the method comprising the following
steps:
selecting a character string by interaction of the pointer with the
display screen;
encoding an NGRAM for each n successive characters in the
character string, the NGRAM being grouped with other NGRAMs
from the character string in an array of NGRAMs;
comparing the character string array of NGRAMs against
NGRAMs for the content records of at least one document;
searching the contents of those content records having
NGRAMs containing each element of the character string NGRAM;
and
indicating on the display screen the records containing the
search string.
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