Organizing Written Notes Using Contextual Data

摘要

A system and a method are disclosed for organizing content collected in a pen-based computing system. Content collected in the pen-based computing system includes stroke data collected by a smart pen as well as other contextual data collected by the pen-based computing system. The collected stroke data includes timestamps and positional data. Based on correlations of spatial and temporal data, collected stroke data is grouped into clusters of stroke data. The clusters of stroke data, along with contextual data, are further grouped into snippets based on temporal correlations.

主权项

1. A method for organizing content collected in a pen-based computing system, the method comprising:
obtaining a plurality of clusters of stroke data, the stroke data comprising representations of strokes made by a smart pen with respect to a writing surface, each cluster having an associated timestamp based on timing of the strokes made by the smart pen; obtaining one or more contextual data items having one or more associated timestamps based on a timing of when the contextual data items were captured by a computing system of the pen-based computing system; grouping, by a processor, the obtained plurality of clusters and the obtained one or more contextual data items into one or more snippets based on a temporal proximity of the timestamps associated with the obtained clusters and the timestamps associated with the contextual data items; and outputting a representation of the one or more snippets.