Method and system for searching within annotated computer...

Details Method and system for searching within annotated computer... Method and system for searching within annotated computer...

2008-05-27

2008-05-27

Leroux, Etienne (Department: 2161)

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

C707S793000, C707S793000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07379928

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.

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