Method and system for selection

• US 7,857,201 B2
• Filed: 09/13/2006
• Issued: 12/28/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 05/25/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Original Assignee: Silverbrook Research Pty Limited
• Inventors: Kelly, Gregg Richard, Chamley, Cathryn Anne, Silverbrook, Kia, Lapstun, Paul, Hollins, Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Colbert; Ella
• Application Number:
  US11/520,170
• Publication Number:
  US 20070038538A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,567 Days
• Field of Search: 235/179, 235/375, 235379-383, 235/487, 235/492, 235/494, 235/462.46, 382179-189, 382/306, 382/314, 435/69.1, 362/213, 362/313, 715/201
• US Class Current: 235/375
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0321 by optically sensing the absolute position with respect to a regularly patterned surface forming a passive digitiser, e.g. pen optically detecting position indicative tags printed on a paper sheet constructional details of pen-shaped pointing devices G06F3/03545, G06F3/03542, G06F3/037
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03545 Pens or stylus
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/00 Finance; Insurance; Tax strategies; Processing of corporate or income taxes

Abstract

The present invention provides a method of copying, using a substrate, object data to a clipboard of a graphical user interface operating system, the substrate having a graphical representation of the object data disposed therein or thereon, the substrate also having coded data disposed therein or thereon, the coded data identifying a plurality of locations on the substrate, the coded data also identifying a layout of the graphical representation of the object data, the method including the steps of: receiving, from a sensing device and in a computer system, indicating data, the indicating data describing movement of the sensing device relative to the substrate, the indicating data also identifying the layout of the graphical representation of the object data, the sensing device, when moved relative to the substrate, adapted to read at least some of the coded data and generate, from the at least some coded data, the indicating data; retrieving, in the computer system and using the indicating data, the object data; and copying the object data to the clipboard.

Claims

1. A method of copying, using a substrate, object data to a clipboard of a graphical user interface operating system, the substrate having a graphical representation of a plurality of objects printed thereon, the substrate also having coded data thereon, the coded data identifying a plurality of locations on the substrate, the coded data also identifying a layout of the graphical representation, the method including the steps of:

receiving, from a sensing device and in a computer system, indicating data, the indicating data describing a gestural movement of the sensing device relative to the substrate, the indicating data also identifying the layout of the graphical representation, the sensing device, when moved relative to the substrate, adapted to read at least some of the coded data and generate, from at least some of the coded data, the indicating data;

retrieving, using the indicating data, the layout of the graphical representation;

determining, from the retrieved layout and the gestural movement described by the indicating data, one or more objects selected by the sensing device;

retrieving, in the computer system and using the indicating data, object data corresponding to the one or more objects; and

copying the object data to the clipboard.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the object data is selected from the group comprising:

plain text, styled text, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), graphics, image data, video data, audio data, script data, document data, and a document Universal Resource Identifier (URI).

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the object data is a clipping from a page.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein the clipping includes active hyperlinks.

5. The method of claim 1 further including the step of pasting the object data to an application.

6. A system for copying, using a substrate, object data to a clipboard of a graphical user interface operating system, the substrate having a graphical representation of a plurality of objects printed thereon, the substrate also having coded data printed thereon, the coded data identifying a plurality of locations on the substrate, the coded data also identifying a layout of the graphical representation, the system including:

a sensing device adapted to read, when moved relative to the substrate, at least some of the coded data and to generate, from at least some of the coded data, indicating data, the indicating data describing a gestural movement of the sensing device relative to the substrate, the indicating data also identifying the layout of the graphical representation; and

a computer system configured to;

receive, from the sensing device, the indicating data;

retrieve, using the indicating data, the layout of the graphical representation;

determine, from the retrieved layout and the gestural movement described by the indicating data, one or more objects selected by the sensing device;

retrieve, using the indicating data, the object data corresponding to the one or more objects; and

copy the object data to the clipboard.