US Patent No: 7,747,943

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Robust anchoring of annotations to content

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Abstract

Annotations are robustly anchored to content. The robust anchoring allows annotations to be associated with the content independently of the format used to store the content. The annotations can be re-anchored to the content after the content has been modified, including modifications to the format used to store the content.

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Patent Owner(s)

Patent OwnerAddressTotal Patents
MICROSOFT CORPORATIONREDMOND, WA24226

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Inventor(s)

Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Bargeron, David M Seattle, WA 39 763
Brush, Alice Jane Bernheim Bellevue, WA 25 59
Gupta, Anoop Woodinville, WA 144 2675

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2006/0080,598 Robust anchoring of annotations to content 9 2005
 
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Patent Citation Ranking

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Patent Info (Count) # Cites Year
 
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (2)
8,276,061 Marking and annotating electronic documents 0 2008
8,121,432 System and method for semantic video segmentation based on joint audiovisual and text analysis 1 2008
 
BROTHER KOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA (1)
8,253,965 Image forming apparatus 0 2008

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