Method and system for centralized copy/paste functionality

• US 20050210401A1
• Filed: 03/18/2004
• Published: 09/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/18/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Technologies Oy (Nokia Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Karttunen, Juha, Mantere, Jussi, Ketola, Pekka
• Application Number:
  US10/805,678
• Publication Number:
  US 20050210401A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/770
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/543 User-generated data transfer, e.g. clipboards, dynamic data exchange [DDE], object linking and embedding [OLE]

Abstract

This invention relates to a method for transferring data from a source application to a target application. From the application an operation is traced, from which operation at least one item is extracted. The item is saved in a trace log file, from which it can be selected and transferred into said target application. The operation can be e.g. incoming or outgoing call, where the item is a phone number or a contact card. The invention relates also to a device, to a system and to computer program product.

Claims

1. A method for transferring data from a source application to a target application, the method comprising steps for

tracing an operation relating to the source application,

extracting at least one item from said operation,

recording said item into a file,

wherein said file is called by the target application for selecting and pasting the item to said target application.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the item is selected from the file by means of a clipboard.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein more than one operations are traced and recorded.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein said operation is traced automatically.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the file is a log file.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein at least one of the following operations:

handling, receiving, sending, downloading, creating, deleting, is traced.

7. The method according to claim 6, wherein said item is a content of the operation or a property of the operation.

8. The method according to claim 1, wherein the source application and the target application are located within one application program.

9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the source application and the target application are located in different application programs.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the source application and the target application are located in different devices.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein said file is shared between application programs of a computing device.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein a type of the item is identified.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein said type belongs to one of the following groups:

image, audio, video, text, URL, phonebook entry, music, calendar event, wallet and error message.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein said type is used for classifying the item.

29. A system for implementing the method of claim 1.

15. A device for computing, said device comprising a source application, a target application and

tracing means for tracing an operation relating to the source application,

extracting means for extracting at least one item from said operation,

a file for storing said item,

said file is arranged to receive an access command from the target application and to present items from the file.

16. The device according to claim 15, wherein one or many item from the file is selected to be accessed by the target application.

17. The device according to claim 15, wherein said tracing means are configured to operate automatically.

18. The device according to claim 15, wherein the file is a log file.

19. The device according to claim 15 comprising also means for at least one of the following operations:

messaging, calling, imaging, browsing, using application programs and selecting.

20. The device according to claim 19, wherein said extracting means are configured to extract the item from a content of the operation or from a property of the operation.

21. The device according to claim 15, wherein the source application and the target application are located within one application program.

22. The device according to claim 15, wherein the source application and the target application are located in different application programs.

23. The device according to claim 15, comprising means for exchanging data with another device.

24. The device according to claim 15, further comprising means for identifying a type of the item.

25. The device according to claim 24, further comprising means for classifying the item based on the its type.

26. The device according to claim 15, wherein said operation is implemented without user action.

27. The device according to claim 15, further comprising means for manual copying.

28. The device according to claim 15, further comprising means for mobile communication.

30. A computer program product, comprising memory means and a computer program comprising instructions for

tracing an operation relating to one application,

extracting at least one item from said operation,

recording said item into a file,

said file being called by another application for selecting the item to be pasted.