MULTI-SOURCE, MULTI-DESTINATION DATA TRANSFERS

• US 20130298048A1
• Filed: 05/23/2013
• Published: 11/07/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 04/26/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kyndryl Incorporated (Kyndryl Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Berstis, Viktors, Chen, Danny Yen-Fu, Dunsmoir, John W.
• Granted Patent: US 9,037,989 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/760
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04812 Interaction techniques based on cursor appearance or behaviour, e.g. being affected by the presence of displayed objects
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04817 using icons graphical or visual programming using iconic symbols G06F8/34
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• 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: G06T 1/0007 Image acquisition
• CPC Class Codes: G06T 2200/24 involving graphical user interfaces [GUIs]

Abstract

Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for multi-source, multi-destination data transfers that include identifying a plurality of destination points having destination contexts in one or more destination objects; selecting source content for transfer; displaying destination contexts for the destination points; and directing source content to at least one destination point in dependence upon the displayed destination contexts. In typical embodiments, identifying destination points includes recording each identified destination point and storing in association with each recorded destination point a copy of a destination context for each recorded destination point.

Claims

1. A method for transferring data, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving a user selection of user-generated text within a word processing document;

displaying (a) an icon representing a web page, (b) a first destination point within the icon and first text which is adjacent to the first destination point and describes the first destination point, and (c) a second, different destination point within the icon and second, different text which is adjacent to the second destination point and describes the second destination point; and

receiving a user mouse selection of one of the destination points within the icon, and in response, copying the selected text into the web page at the selected destination point.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of:

receiving another user selection of other user-generated text within a word processing document;

displaying (a) then icon representing a web page, (b) the first destination point within the icon and the first text which is adjacent to the first destination point and describes the first destination point, and (c) the second, different destination point within the icon and the second, different text which is adjacent to the second destination point and describes the second destination point; and

receiving a user mouse selection of the other destination point within the icon, and in response, copying the selected text into the web page at the other destination point.

3. A computer program product for transferring data, the computer program product comprising:

one or more computer-readable storage devices and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, the program instructions comprising;

first program instructions to receive a user selection of user-generated text within a word processing document;

second program instructions to initiate display of (a) an icon representing a web page, (b) a first destination point within the icon and first text which is adjacent to the first destination point and describes the first destination point, and (c) a second, different destination point within the icon and second, different text which is adjacent to the second destination point and describes the second destination point; and

third program instructions to receive a user mouse selection of one of the destination points within the icon, and in response, copy the selected text into the web page at the selected destination point.

4. The computer program product of claim 3 wherein:

the first program instructions receive another user selection of other user-generated text within a word processing document;

the second program instructions display (a) the icon representing a web page, (b) the first destination point within the icon and the first text which is adjacent to the first destination point and describes the first destination point, and (c) the second, different destination point within the icon and the second, different text which is adjacent to the second destination point and describes the second destination point; and

the third program instructions receive a user mouse selection of the other destination point within the icon, and in response, copy the selected text into the web page at the other destination point.

5. A computer program product for transferring an image, the computer program product comprising:

one or more computer-readable storage devices and program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more storage devices, the program instructions comprising;

first program instructions to receive a user selection of an image;

second program instructions to initiate display of (a) an icon representing a web page, (b) a first destination point within the icon and first text which is adjacent to the first destination point and describes the first destination point, and (c) a second, different destination point within the icon and second, different text which is adjacent to the second destination point and describes the second destination point; and

third program instructions to receive a user mouse selection of one of the destination points within the icon, and in response, copy the selected image into the web page at the selected destination point.

6. The computer program product of claim 5 wherein:

the first program instructions receive another user selection of another image;

the second program instructions to initiate display of (a) the icon representing a web page, (b) the first destination point within the icon and the first text which is adjacent to the first destination point and describes the first destination point, and (c) the second, different destination point within the icon and the second, different text which is adjacent to the second destination point and describes the second destination point; and

the third program instructions receive a user mouse selection of the other destination point within the icon, and in response, copy the other selected image into the web page at the other destination point.