INTERACTIVE FORMAT MANIPULATION AND REPLICATION

• US 20150019489A1
• Filed: 09/12/2013
• Published: 01/15/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 07/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Kritt, Barry A., Rakshit, Sarbajit K.
• Granted Patent: US 9,990,409 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/634
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/258 Data format conversion from or to a database
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/103 Formatting, i.e. changing of presentation of documents automatic justification G06F40/189; automatic line break hyphenation G06F40/191

Abstract

Selectively applying format attributes of a source to the content of a destination. The format attributes defining the format of one or more source objects are captured, and from among the captured attributes, format attributes are selected. A destination object is formatted such that selected format attributes are copied to the content of the destination, and the copied format attributes are applied to the destination object as a destination format.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

capturing one or more first attributes that define formatting for a first source having a first format;

selecting a destination different from the first source for application of at least one of the captured first attributes;

formatting content of the selected destination, including selectively copying one or more of the captured attributes of the format to content of the destination; and

applying the selected attributes to the content as a destination format.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein formatting content of the selected destination includes de-selecting at least one of the captured attributes, wherein at least one of the captured attributes is excluded from the destination.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising capturing second attributes for a second source, the captured attributes defining formatting of the second source.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein formatting content of the destination includes selectively copying one or more of the captured second attributes to the destination.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising merging selection of the first and second attributes and applying the merged attributes to the content of the destination.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the selective copying includes all of the captured attributes and wherein the merge includes all of the captured attributes of the first source and the second source.

7. The method of claim 3, further comprising creating a template for future application, the template capturing the format attributes of the selected sources.