Intermediate Viewer for Transferring Information Elements via a Transfer Buffer to a Plurality of Sets of Destinations

• US 20090044140A1
• Filed: 10/15/2008
• Published: 02/12/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: John H. Bosma, John W. Dunsmoir, Keith R. Walker, Mei Yang Selvage, Yen-Fu Chen
• Original Assignee: John H. Bosma, John W. Dunsmoir, Keith R. Walker, Mei Yang Selvage, Yen-Fu Chen
• Inventors: Chen, Yen-Fu, Walker, Keith R., Selvage, Mei Yang, Dunsmoir, John W., Bosma, John H.
• Granted Patent: US 8,161,401 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/770
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/543 User-generated data transfer, e.g. clipboards, dynamic data exchange [DDE], object linking and embedding [OLE]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/544 Buffers; Shared memory; Pipes

Abstract

A method for viewing and controlling data intermediately between source and destination by receiving from a graphical user interface a user designation of a plurality of sets of copy command destination positions within contents of a computer file, wherein each destination point is allowed to be included in more than one set of destination points; displaying to the user information elements contained in an operating system clipboard transfer buffer; receiving a user selection of information elements in the clipboard transfer buffer; receiving a user definition of a subset of the previously-designated copy command destination positions; and automatically copying the selected information elements to positions in the computer file corresponding according to the user defined subset of copy command destination positions.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving from a graphical user interface a user designation of a plurality of sets of copy command destination positions within contents of a computer file, wherein each destination point is allowed to be included in more than one set of destination points;

displaying to said user information elements contained in an operating system clipboard transfer buffer,

receiving a user selection of information elements in said clipboard transfer buffer,

receiving a user definition of a subset of said previously-designated copy command destination positions; and

automatically copying said selected information elements to positions in said computer file corresponding according to said user defined subset of copy command destination positions.

2. The method as set forth claim 1 further comprising allowing user manipulation of said displayed information elements prior to automatically copying information elements.

3. The method as set forth in claim 1 further comprising providing a do list and an undo function for reversing actions recorded within said do list.

4. The method as set forth in claim 1 wherein said copying comprises performing spell checking on text information elements selected for copying.

5. The method as set forth in claim 1 wherein said copying comprises performing grammar checking on text information elements selected for copying.