| US 7,478,336 B2 | ||
| Intermediate viewer for transferring information elements via a transfer buffer to a plurality of sets of destinations | ||
| Yen-Fu Chen, Austin, Tex. (US); John W. Dunsmoir, Round Rock, Tex. (US); John H. Bosma, Cedar Park, Tex. (US); Keith R. Walker, Austin, Tex. (US); and Mei Ying Selvage, Austin, Tex. (US) | ||
| Assigned to International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, N.Y. (US) | ||
| Filed on Nov. 06, 2003, as Appl. No. 10/703,012. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0102629 A1, May 12, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 3/048 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 715—770 [715/769; 715/724] | 5 Claims |
| 1. A method comprising the steps of:
while editing by a user contents of at least one computer resource in at least one graphical user interface, allowing said
user to designate a plurality of sets of copy command destinations points within said displayed contents within said graphical
user interface, wherein each copy command destination point is allowed to be included in more than one set of copy command
destination points, said computer resource comprising one or more computer files being edited by said user, and said copy
command destination points comprising positions within said computer resource contents;
providing an Intermediate Viewer configured:
a. to display one or more information elements contained in an operating system clipboard transfer buffer,
b. to receive a selection by said user of one or more displayed information elements in said clipboard transfer buffer, and
c. to define a subset of said previously-designated copy command destination points; and
automatically transferring from said clipboard transfer buffer a plurality of copies of said selected information elements
to points within the contents of said computer resource corresponding to each of said copy command destination points in said
subset of copy command destination points.
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