Techniques to facilitate asynchronous communication

摘要

Users may communicate an idea asynchronously by including contextual information. The contextual information may be presented in multimodal annotations, suggestions of logical idea progression, and a chronological history of the project creation. The contextual information may include content captured from the real-world including from the user's immediate environment or elsewhere.

主权项

1. An asynchronous communication system that allows a user to capture and communicate contextual information about content, the asynchronous communication system comprising:
a processor; storage medium; a display; and programming instructions stored on the storage medium that, when executed by the processor, perform operations comprising: displaying content to be contextualized on the display, the content to be contextualized comprises a digital sketch created by a user; receiving contextual information that provides context to the content to be contextualized; receiving an indication indicating a portion of content to be annotated on a digital canvas; in response to the indication, displaying on the digital canvas an indicator indicating the portion of content to be annotated; linking an annotation canvas to the indicator, the annotation canvas configured to display multimodal information; associating the contextual information with the content to be contextualized based at least in part on the indication, the contextual information comprises multimodal information, the multimodal information comprises two or more types of elements, the two or more types of elements being selected from a group consisting of text, image, video, audio, audio-video, or graphic.