Electronic sticky note system, information processing terminal, method for processing electronic sticky note, medium storing program, and data structure of electronic sticky note

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9628423-B2
Application number	US-201414529378-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 31, 2014
Priority date	Jul 25, 2008
Publication date	Apr 18, 2017
Grant date	Apr 18, 2017

Abstract

Provided is a technology enable to associate electronic sticky data with any application and to execute the application. An electronic sticky note system includes display means for displaying an electronic sticky note, storage means for storing sticky note information which includes header information to be displayed in a display area for the electronic sticky note, sticky note displaying position information indicating a position to be displayed the electronic sticky note, and application associating information corresponding to information for activating the application associated with the electronic sticky note, control means for displaying, by the display means, the electronic sticky note on the basis of the header information and the electronic sticky note displaying position information and for executing the application on the basis of the application associating information, and input means for inputting the sticky note information. In the electronic sticky note system, an application, which is associated with the electronic sticky note, includes other than the application which is indicated by the sticky note displaying position information.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An electronic sticky note system equipped in an information processing terminal, comprising:
a memory configured to store computer executable instructions; and
a processor configured to execute the computer executable instructions, which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform:
displaying, on a display, a mail including a text when an electronic mail application is activated;
receiving an input for generating an electronic sticky note and an input for sticky note information;
storing, in a storage device, the sticky note information which includes header information to be displayed in a display area for the electronic sticky note, sticky note displaying position information indicating a position to be displayed the electronic sticky note, and application associating information corresponding to information for activating an application selected from one or more applications that are associated with the electronic sticky note; and
in response to the input for generating the electronic sticky note, generating the electronic sticky note based on at least a part of the text of the mail and displaying, on the display the electronic sticky note on the basis of the header information and the electronic sticky note displaying position information and executes the application, selected from the one or more applications that are associated with the electronic sticky note, on the basis of the application associating information;
wherein an application, which is associated with the electronic sticky note, includes the application which is indicated by the sticky note displaying position information and other application information corresponding to the application associating information included in the sticky note information,
wherein the processor is capable of activating a specific application, selected according to a user's input, corresponding to an electronic sticky note selected from the displayed electronic sticky note,
wherein the selected electronic sticky note is associated with the sticky note information corresponding to the specific application stored in the storage device, and
wherein the header information of the sticky note information includes at least one word automatically selected from the text of the mail.

Assignees

• Nec Corp

Inventors

• Tetsuhashi Hideaki

Classifications

• G06F3/0483 Primary

  Interaction with page-structured environments, e.g. book metaphor · CPC title

• G06F40/169

  Annotation, e.g. comment data or footnotes · CPC title

• G06F3/04842

  Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements (G06F3/0482 takes precedence) · CPC title

• G06F17/241

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L51/22 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic