METHOD AND APPARATUS OF MANAGING ITEMS ON CLIPBOARD OF PORTABLE TERMINAL

• US 20120246594A1
• Filed: 03/21/2012
• Published: 09/27/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/21/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: HAN, Hyun Kyu, KIM, Myoung Gyu, KANG, Yeon Gu
• Application Number:
  US13/425,757
• Publication Number:
  US 20120246594A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/790
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/166 Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting

Abstract

A portable terminal and a method for managing items on a clipboard of the portable terminal are provided for a user to copy text and data items simultaneously onto the clipboard and paste the copied items individually where the user desires. The portable terminal of the present invention includes a touchscreen and a control unit which controls presenting a display region showing a screen corresponding to user command on the touchscreen in response to an execution of at least one application, presenting a clipboard region at a part of the touchscreen in response to a user command, and displaying clip data selected by the user among at least one clip data appearing in the clipboard region on the display region.

Claims

1. A portable terminal providing a clipboard, comprising:

a touchscreen; and

a control unit which controls presenting a display region showing a screen corresponding to user command on the touchscreen in response to an execution of at least one application, presenting a clipboard region at a part of the touchscreen in response to a user command, and displaying clip data selected by the user among at least one clip data appearing in the clipboard region on the display region.

2. The portable terminal of claim 1, wherein the clipboard region is presented so as to be overlaid on or separated from the display region.

3. The portable terminal of claim 2, wherein the clipboard region is presented at an area in opposition to another area providing a status bar of the portable terminal.

4. The portable terminal of claim 1, wherein the control unit controls generating the clip data based on a web-language and storing the clip data in the clipboard, and

wherein the clip data includes text and multimedia data.

5. The portable terminal of claim 4, wherein the clip data is formatted with commands defining font size, font color, font type, paragraph style, multimedia data, multimedia data arrangement, and hyperlink, and

wherein the clip data is formatted in the same format as the copied data.

6. The portable terminal of claim 4, wherein the control unit determines whether copied data corresponding to the clip data is a web-language based data, and determines a clip data generation scheme according to data type of the copied data.

7. The portable terminal of claim 1, wherein the clipboard region respectively presents preview data corresponding to each of the at least one clip data, and

wherein the preview data is generated as at least one of a representative data and a capture data.

8. A method for managing a clipboard of a portable terminal, comprising:

executing at least one application;

presenting a display region showing a screen corresponding to a user command in response to the execution of the application;

presenting a clipboard region at an area of the touchscreen in response to a user command; and

displaying clip data selected by the user among at least one clip data appearing in the clipboard region on the display region.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

displaying a screen having a source data to be copied;

receiving a user command corresponding to an instruction for copying of the source data on the screen; and

generating a clip data with a region selected from the source data in response to the user command.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the presenting of the clipboard region comprises displaying the clipboard region so as to be overlaid on the display region, or so as to be separated from the display region.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the presenting of the clipboard region comprises presenting the clipboard region at an area in opposition to another area providing a status bar of the portable terminal.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the generating of the clip data comprises:

formatting the clip data based on a web-language; and

storing the clip data in the clipboard.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the generating of the clip data comprises formatting the clip data with commands defining font size, font color, font type, paragraph style, multimedia data, multimedia data arrangement, and hyperlink, and

wherein the clip data being formatted in the same format as the copied data.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the storing of the clip data comprises accumulating at least one clip data copied in response to user inputs.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the presenting of the clipboard region comprises displaying at least one preview data corresponding to at least one clip data in the clipboard region.