INK DIVIDER AND ASSOCIATED APPLICATION PROGRAM INTERFACE

摘要

Methods for communicating between an application and an ink divider object (which stores ink strokes to be divided into groups) may include: (a) issuing a divide request to the ink divider object, optionally by the application; (b) in response to th e divide request, calling a divide method, which groups the stored ink strokes into one or mor e groupings of strokes having a first predetermined granularity (e.g., words, lines, paragraphs, sentences, drawings, etc.); and (c) making information regarding the one or more groupings of strokes available to the application. This "information" made available to the application may include, for example, the actual groupings of the stroke s, the number of stroke groupings having the first predetermined granularity, machine generated text corresponding to the stroke groupings, or the like. The results of the divid e method may be stored in an ink division result object. In some examples, the ink divisi on result object may include the originally divided strokes and allow retrieval of groupings of strokes of various different granularities. This invention also relates to systems for performing the above methods and various data structures used in performing these methods.< /SDOAB>