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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8112705 | Magnifying the text of a link while still retaining browser function in the magnified display A web browser magnifies the content of the whole page in memory and displays the relevant portion in a magnifier with hyperlinks. The web browser then maps the magnified display to the original document. Thus, manipulation of the mouse in the magnified display may r... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8103951 | Dynamic schema creation In a database application executing on a computer system, a database table view is represented by a structured object located on a storage device coupled to the computer system. Responsive to a user pasting content (e.g., spreadsheet data) onto the view of the table... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8095867 | System and computer program product for copying and pasting displayed elements of a range of cells in an electronic spreadsheet The present invention is related to displaying and/or hiding, in an electronic multi-dimensional spreadsheet on a user interface, elements of a range of cells, a range of cells including one or more contiguous elements aligned along a given spreadsheet dimension, an... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8042057 | Facilitated source to target object editing functions A method for editing software objects can include identifying at least one user selection of at least a portion of an electronic document displayed within an application and prompting a user for a target destination to which the user selection is to be posted. A use... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8020112 | Clipboard augmentation Systems, methods, and data structures for augmenting data placed on the clipboard with additional data are disclosed. Such systems, methods, and data structures may transform the data to produce data in other formats using, for example, transform specifications or e... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8006194 | Associating an object with a relevant data source Associating an object with a relevant data source is disclosed. In some embodiments, an object pasted into a destination document is associated with a data source included in the destination document. In various embodiments, the data source associated with the objec... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7908564 | Copying and pasting a plurality of data items as a group A context menu including a group copy function is displayed and, when the function is selected, all parent nodes of a node corresponding to the input field the pointing device is positioned over are displayed as alternatives to be copied. In response to selection of... | 03/15/2011 |
| 7895511 | Copy and paste of cells in a multi-dimensional spreadsheet A system and method for copying and pasting cells in a multi-dimensional spreadsheet. The method is implemented by execution of program code by a processor of a computer system. A source range of cells is copied and pasted in a multi-dimensional spreadsheet onto a d... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7877701 | In-context total document views for manipulating data A computer-implementable method, system and computer-readable medium for providing in-context total document views for manipulating data are presented. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of: displaying an active context of a software program on a User ... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7870502 | Retaining style information when copying content An illustrative implementation is described for copying an identified portion of source content along with style information associated with the portion. The implementation allows the identified portion to be pasted into target content. By virtue of the extraction a... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7853888 | Methods and apparatus for displaying thumbnails while copying and pasting A system provides for a clipboard manager for showing thumbnails in a clipboard while editing a document via a clipboard manager. The clipboard manager allows a user to select data from a second document. Upon selection, the clipboard manager generates a thumbnail t... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7793224 | Methods and apparatus for formatting identified content A content formatting process receives identification of selected content within an original document, and identifies formatting information associated with the selected content, but not contained within the selected content. The identified formatting information is ... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7770127 | Method for processing of information and a terminal The invention relates to a method for processing information in a terminal that comprises means for selecting the data group to be processed, and at least one processing means for processing the selected data group. In the method at least a first processing state an... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7735017 | System and method for automating manual transactions between disjoint systems A system, method and program product for copying data between disjoint data processing applications. A system is disclosed that includes: a source application having a system for selecting a data record and a triggering agent that extracts relevant data from the sel... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7689925 | Copy and paste extensibility Described is technology allowing computer programs to participate in the copy and paste process at various times. A source program, from which data is requested to be copied to the clipboard, may participate as desired, including, for example, to cancel the copy, or... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7631268 | Moving data to multiple target files A computer-implementable method, system, and computer-usable medium designed to move data from a source file to multiple target documents by inserting a copy of an insertion point into each of multiple target files; associating specific source data, from a source fi... | 12/08/2009 |
| 7596758 | Method of appending a group of files to files on a clipboard of a desktop A system, apparatus and method of appending a group of files to files on a clipboard of a desktop are provided. The system, apparatus and method include displaying a first window having an option that allows a group of files to be appended to files on the clipboard ... | 09/29/2009 |
| 7574667 | Apparatus, system and computer program product for appending a group of files to files on a clipboard of a desktop A system, apparatus and method of appending a group of files to files on a clipboard of a desktop are provided. The system, apparatus and method include displaying a first window having an option that allows a group of files to be appended to files on the clipboard ... | 08/11/2009 |
| 7478336 | Intermediate viewer for transferring information elements via a transfer buffer to a plurality of sets of destinations An Intermediate Viewer having a user interface which allows viewing, manipulation, and transfer of information elements contained in a transfer buffer to be transferred to a plurality of destination points or areas, with the destination points or areas being defined... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7472339 | Method in an electronic spreadsheet for persistently self-replicating multiple ranges of cells through a copy-paste operation and a self-replication table The present invention includes a method and system for persistently self-replicating multiple ranges of cells through a copy-paste operation, in a multi dimensional spreadsheet. A set of ranges of cells is defined, wherein each range of cells has the same size. Each... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7467350 | Method in an electronic spreadsheet for copying and pasting displayed elements of a range of cells The present invention is directed to a method for copying and pasting, in an electronic multi-dimensional spreadsheet, displayed elements of a source range of cells onto a destination range of cells, the source range of cells including one or more elements displayed... | 12/16/2008 |
| 7461349 | Methods and apparatus for applying functions to content An editor application receives a selection of content made with a selection tool such as a computer mouse. The editor application monitors one or more motion attributes (e.g., direction, speed, etc.) associated with the selection tool during the selection of content... | 12/02/2008 |
| 7454699 | Smart content insertion A system and method for inserting content is described. A user may designate content to be inserted into a document and have the content inserted into the document at either a designed location or, by determining the content associated with a receiving page, the sys... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7444597 | Organizing elements on a web page via drag and drop operations Methods, systems and computer-readable media are provided for organizing links on a web page via drag and drop operations. Single web page links or groups of web page links may be dragged from one location on a web page to another location on a web page or to anothe... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7386808 | Apparatus and method for selecting actions for visually associated files and applications An apparatus and a method for use within a graphical user interface visually associate a graphical representation of a file and a graphical representation of an application, and select an action from a menu appearing in proximity to the association. In the invention... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7383501 | Automated document formatting tool A formatting tool enables “smart” copy and paste functions. The “smart” copy and paste functions can be invoked in a context-sensitive manner, depending on the conditions under which the copy and paste functions are implemented. The present invention will au... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7376905 | Method, system, and computer program product for user-specified GUI object distribution An improvement to the known method/system for distribution of elements displayed in GUI windows and similar processing environments is disclosed. A visible, moveable, and size-adjustable bounding box is provided. The user can specify any size for the bounding box an... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373603 | Method and system for providing data reference information Reference information related to data that is copied using computer software is provided. The data can be copied from a first computer application to a memory. Reference information related to the data can also be copied to the memory. The copied data can be pasted ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7370281 | System and method for smart drag-and-drop functionality The invention provides a system and method for providing smart file import and drag-and-drop functionality in a graphical user interface environment. As a file is dragged and dropped onto a set of folders using an explorer-like interface, the system automatically de... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7346853 | Online learning monitor Content is transferred from one computer resource to another computer resource by receiving a first insertion point or replacement area from a first user interface to a destination computer resource, receiving an enablement to perform automatic paste operation, swit... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346852 | Method of managing casual storage field A method of managing a casual storage field comprises the steps of: receiving a plurality of information elements from one or more application programs, each information element including one or more data items; retaining the received information elements in the cas... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7340685 | Automatic reference note generator Content is transferred from one computer resource to another computer resource by receiving a first insertion point or replacement area from a first user interface to a destination computer resource, receiving an enablement to perform automatic paste operation, swit... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7325038 | Mechanism for transferring data between applications running on multiple networked computers A mechanism is described in which data from a first application running on a first computer is stored for access over a network by a second application running on a second computer. In one aspect, messages are periodically broadcast over the network to indicate that... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7310776 | Control system with customizable menu structure for personal mobility vehicle A control system for a personal mobility vehicle has a menu structure that can be ordered so that commonly used areas of the menu are grouped together, thus avoiding the need to frequently navigate through seldom-used portions of a standard menu structure. ... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7305430 | Reducing data storage requirements on mail servers A single copy of an incoming message addressed to multiple recipients is stored as a shared message on a server and the message's size is determined. A recipient count indicates how many of the recipients of the message have mailboxes on the server. A total amount o... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7299413 | Document processing method and system The present invention provides a document processing method and system capable of making both global and local settings when inserting, moving, or copying and pasting data, by taking full advantage of the feature of retaining data and set values hierarchically in th... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7296240 | Document object membranes Displaying a membrane, or container, around a document object on an electronic document page. In response to placing the insertion point (IP) on the page, a ghost membrane can be displayed on an output screen at the IP. After content is added at the IP, a membrane a... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7293242 | Facilitated source to target object editing functions A method for editing software objects can include identifying at least one user selection of at least a portion of an electronic document displayed within an application and prompting a user for a target destination to which the user selection is to be posted. A use... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7213207 | System and method for accessing registers of a hardware device in a graphical program A system and method for creating a graphical program which accesses registers of a hardware device. In one embodiment, a register access node or primitive may be included in a graphical program, such that when the graphical program is executed on the computer system... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7188308 | Interface and method for exploring a collection of data An interface and a method is provided for permitting a user to explore a collection of data. The data collection provides nodes as structural elements, and references which are assigned to nodes and hold the address of another node. Multiple references can be assign... | 03/06/2007 |
