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Interactive thumbnails for transferring content among electronic documents

  • US 8,555,186 B2
  • Filed: 05/08/2007
  • Issued: 10/08/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A non-transitory computer readable volatile or non-volatile storage medium storing program instructions executable to:

  • present a first electronic document in a panel;

    receive an identification of at least a portion of the first electronic document to transfer into a second electronic document, wherein the second electronic document is not currently presented in the panel;

    generate an interactive, reduced size representation of the second electronic document in situ with the first electronic document within the panel, wherein at least a portion of the interactive, reduced size representation of the second electronic document is linked to a repository for the second electronic document;

    receive selection of the interactive, reduced size representation of the second electronic document to paste a copy of the portion of the first electronic document into the second electronic document; and

    paste the copy of the portion of the first electronic document into the second electronic document while remaining in context of the first electronic document and without transitioning to the second electronic document;

    wherein to paste the copy of the portion of the first electronic document into the second electronic document, the program instructions are further executable to automatically store, in response to said paste, the copy to the repository linked by the interactive, reduced size representation of the second document such that the pasted copy will be automatically present in the second electronic document when the second electronic document is opened.

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