Abstract: A handwritten or handdrawing messaging system employs a handwriting messaging component operable with a messaging client of a mobile device connected to the data transmission network to set up a handwriting data capture area in the messaging client into which the user can enter handwritten or handdrawn input through a suitable manual input device, and then operates to capture the handwritten or handdrawn input and send it as a handwritten electronic message to the intended recipient. It also sets up a graphical data viewing area within the messaging client for viewing handwritten electronic messages sent to the user. Preferably, it is a small-footprint software module installed with the messaging client of the mobile device. The mobile device can be any type of wired or wirelessly-connected portable device operating on a computing platform, such as a personal digital assistant (PDA) device, game console or player device, or other mobile messaging device.

Abstract: A real-time electronic messaging system, and related method, employs a remote client device with a handwriting client component that sets up a graphical data capture area in the device visual interface and employs a graphical input device for allowing a sender to input a handwritten or handdrawn message. The handwriting client component captures the handwritten or handdrawn input, converts it to an electronic message, and sends it online to a recipient. The remote client device is connected online via a network to a real-time messaging server which sends the message to the remote client device for the recipient. In preferred versions, the remote client device can be a wireless PDA, always-on pager or messaging device, or mobile phone with SMS or EMS service.

Abstract: A system and method for developing an application for serving a document to a client in a client/server network employs an Object Model which defines templates, extensions, documents, and content objects in a template inheritance model. The Object Model serves a document, such as a webpage of a Web site application, by combining the structure and content inherited from a template and extensions in the template hierarchy. The templates specify the structure of the document and include tags as placeholders for content objects to be incorporated in the document. Extensions descend from either a template or another extension, and can expand upon the number of tags specified in a parent, add additional formatting to the layout, and/or refine the definition of tags that already exist in the inheritance hierarchy. When a document is to be viewed or served, a page server retrieves the template hierarchy and incorporates all tagged content in the structure inherited from the template and its extensions.

Abstract: A real-time electronic messaging system, and related method, employs a remote client device with a handwriting client component that sets up a graphical data capture area in the device visual interface and employs a graphical input device for allowing a sender to input a handwritten or handdrawn message. The handwriting client component captures the handwritten or handdrawn input, converts it to an electronic message, and sends it online to a recipient. The remote client device is connected online via a network to a real-time messaging server which sends the message to the remote client device for the recipient. In preferred versions, the remote client device can be a wireless PDA, always-on pager or messaging device, or mobile phone with SMS or EMS service.

Abstract: An electronic messaging system, and related method, employs a handwriting server component operable on a network with an email host server, and a client component operable with an email client on a client computer connected to the network. The client component sets up a graphical data capture area into which a user can enter handwritten or handdrawn input through a suitable graphical input device. The handwritten or handdrawn input is captured and sent as pixel data or an attached graphics file with an email message. The preferred form of the handwriting messaging component is as a Java applet downloaded to the web page of the email client or installed as a plug-in with the email client. The graphical email message may be sent to a server having a Java-based handwriting server component, a Domino server, a real-time messaging server, a standard Internet email server, or an Internet email server with a WAP interface to wireless PDAs and other digital communications devices.