Cut And Paste Patents (Class 715/770)
  • Patent number: 11494056
    Abstract: A user interface configuration may permit a user to make selections while the interface is dynamically adjusting and reconfiguring its layout and appearance for optimized user satisfaction. One example method of operation may include receiving an input command on a first menu displayed on a touch receptive surface of a user device and modifying a current view of the first menu by moving a menu item either upward or downward among a number of different menu options. The method may also include selecting the menu item responsive to the received input command and also receiving an additional input command to select a functionality to apply to the menu item, and applying the functionality to the menu item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: OPEN INVENTION NETWORK LLC
    Inventor: David Gerard Ledet
  • Patent number: 11278800
    Abstract: A recording medium and server provide a game that improves the interest in and taste of a battle event and increases the interest in and real enjoyment of the entire game. The recording medium provides a game including a predetermined battle event comprising at least one battle. In a battle event of this game, game contents are displayed in a first field, and a player selects therefrom a game content to be used for a battle with an enemy character. The first field is replenished with another game content alternative to the selected game content as needed so that the player can further select an additional game content therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2022
    Assignee: Gree, Inc.
    Inventors: Yusuke Hisaoka, Makiko Tamura, Yuji Okada, Takahiro Mori, Mitsuo Iwao
  • Patent number: 11170160
    Abstract: A method, device and computer program product are provided. The method is under control of one or more processors includes program instructions to perform resource context awareness (RCA) by automatically. The method accesses an active destination resource at a computing device, matches the active destination resource to a resource context of interest (COI) from an RCA transfer library and transfers an outbound resource advancement (RA) content segment stored in memory of the computing device to the active destination resource based on the resource COI from the RCA transfer library.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: LENOVO (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: John Weldon Nicholson, Daryl Cromer
  • Patent number: 11157268
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention include receiving, by a processor, a request to copy a code from a source file and receiving, by the processor, a request to paste the code into a destination file. Aspects also include creating, by the processor based at least in part on the request to paste the code, an entry in a database, the entry having an identification of the source file, an identification of the destination file, a location of the code in the source file, and a location of the code in the destination file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Andrew C. M. Hicks, Michael Terrence Cohoon, Ryan Thomas Rawlins, Michael E. Gildein
  • Patent number: 10956239
    Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for augmenting a copy operation with contextual information from a source. The method includes one or more processors determining that a user provides input selecting content, within a document, and input adding the selected content to a clipboard. The method further includes one or more processors determining a classification of the selected content based on analyzing the selected content and the document utilizing Natural Language Processing (NLP). The method further includes one or more processors extracting information associated with the selected content from the document based on the determined classification. The method further includes one or more processors updating the clipboard with the selected content and the extracted information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Nadiya Kochura, Anh Uong, Daniel Manning
  • Patent number: 10909197
    Abstract: A method for determining the significance of a document, or a portion thereof, is disclosed. Accordingly a search engine, or some other application, analyzes user associated content portions of a document to determine a relevance score for the document (e.g. Curation Rank). The particular algorithm for determining the relevance score will vary depending upon the particular implementation, but may generally be based upon an analysis of the number and quality of user associated content portions, comments, ratings of the user's themselves, and the ratings of users contributing to interactions (e.g. sharing) with the content portions. Based on this analysis, the document is assigned a relevance score which is used for ranking the document in accordance with instructions associated with a search query. E.g. the document relevance score may be used in selecting and ordering documents returned in search results for a particular search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Inventor: Rohit Chandra
  • Patent number: 10827330
    Abstract: Systems and methods for proactively identifying and surfacing relevant content on an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display are disclosed herein. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining information identifying a first physical location viewed by a user in a first application. The method further includes detecting a first input. In response to detecting the first input: a second application is identified that is capable of accepting geographic location information; and an affordance is presented that is distinct from the first application, with a suggestion to open the second application. The suggestion includes information about the first physical location. The method further includes detecting a second input at the affordance. In response to detecting the second input at the affordance, the second application is opened and populated to include information that is based at least in part on the information identifying the first physical location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel C. Gross, Patrick L. Coffman, Richard R. Dellinger, Christopher P. Foss, Jason J. Gauci, Aria D. Haghighi, Cyrus D. Irani, Bronwyn A. Jones, Gaurav Kapoor, Stephen O. Lemay, Colin C. Morris, Michael R. Siracusa, Lawrence Y. Yang, Brent D. Ramerth, Jerome R. Bellegarda, Jannes G. A. Dolfing, Giulia P. Pagallo, Xin Wang, Jun Hatori, Alexandre R. Moha, Kevin D. Clark, Karl Christian Kohlschuetter, Jesper A. Andersen, Hafid Arras, Alexandre Carlhian, Thomas Deniau, Mathieu J. Martel, Sofiane Toudji
  • Patent number: 10824486
    Abstract: An information handling system may include a host system including a host system processor and a host system memory coupled to the host system processor; and a management controller configured to provide out-of-band management of the host system. The management controller may be configured to establish a virtual console session between the host system and a remote terminal. The management controller may further be configured to, in response to a command from the remote terminal to send data from the remote terminal to the host system, mount a partition of the management controller such that the partition is accessible to the host system, wherein the partition includes the data. The management controller may be further configured to transmit a notification to the host system indicating the command and the partition, wherein the host system is configured to receive the data from the partition in accordance with the command.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Babu Chandrasekhar, Rajib Saha
  • Patent number: 10592489
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method and computer processing system are provided. The method includes intercepting, by a processor, a sequence of data elements related to an interaction between a user and a user interface of a computer system that includes the processor. The method further includes identifying, by the processor, atomic operations within the sequence and metadata associated with the atomic operations. The method also includes calculating, by the processor, correlation indexes from the metadata. A respective correlation index is calculated for various atomic operation groups formed from the atomic operations. The method additionally includes identifying, by the processor, a macro operation from at least one of the correlation indexes. The macro operation includes multiple correlated atomic operations from among the atomic operations identified within the sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Simone Bonazzoli, Marco Borgianni, Claudio Falcone, Alessio Fioravanti, Ilaria Gorga, Giuseppe Longobardi, Silvano Lutri, Luigi Presti, Paolo Salerno, Francesca Ziantoni
  • Patent number: 10417320
    Abstract: An insertion feature is provided with a clipboard manager application. The clipboard manager application initiates operations to provide the insertion feature upon detecting a copy operation. In response, an item associated with the copy operation is stored. Next, a paste input is intercepted. A sample content of the item is rendered in a clipboard user interface (UI) for a selection. Upon detecting the item as selected, the item is inserted into a previously active application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventor: Daniel E Fairweather
  • Patent number: 10210229
    Abstract: In an approach for creating a file, a computer receives a selection on a selection of content within application software on a first computing device to transfer to a clipboard. The computer appends metadata of the received selection with metadata indicating application software and file association information that corresponds to the selected content. The computer receives an indication to paste the selected content from the clipboard to a second computing device. The computer determines whether compatible application software on the second computing device is capable of accepting the selected content included in the received indication to paste. The computer responsive to determining that compatible application software on the second computing device is not capable of accepting the selected content included in the received indication to paste, creates a file that includes the selected content included in the received indication to paste and appended metadata.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dinesh K. Bhudavaram, Shubjit Naik, Srivatchsan Uthamanathan
  • Patent number: 9921735
    Abstract: An intelligent terminal may comprise at least one processor-readable non-transitory storage medium and at least one processor in communication with the at least one storage medium. The at least one storage medium may comprise at least one set of instructions for automatically pasting a URL from a clipboard to an address bar of a web browser. The at least one processor may be configured to execute the at least one set of instructions to obtain a URL copied by a user from a clipboard; determine an intention of the user associated with whether to paste the candidate string in a designated location of an interface displayed on the intelligent terminal; and automatically display the candidate string in the designated location of the interface when the intention of the user is determined to paste the candidate string in the designated location of the interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited
    Inventors: Ningjun Dou, Ming He
  • Patent number: 9904469
    Abstract: A default virtual interface is replaced by an adapted interface to an independent application. The adapted interface allows one (dependent) application to be accessed from within a second (independent) application. This allows, for example, a game application to be executed within a text messaging application. Output of the dependent application can be conveyed to the base application. The adapted user interface optionally includes a plurality of shortcut keys each represented by a different shortcut icon. One or more of the shortcut keys are optionally configured for sharing the dependent and/or independent applications with remote devices. Content shared via the virtual interface is optionally provided as a data stream and is optionally mapped to a social network, such sharing can be tracked across social networks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2018
    Assignee: Hyperkey, Inc.
    Inventors: Nikita Gnedin, Stuart Gannes
  • Patent number: 9697186
    Abstract: 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 and retention of style information, the identified portion that is pasted into the target content visually resembles the identified portion as it appears in the source content. The implementation can identify relevant style information to be preserved based on a contextual analysis of style information applied to the source content. In one illustrative case, some of the style information may be revealed by parts of the content that are not directly demarcated by the identified portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Justin E. Rogers, Markus W. Mielke
  • Patent number: 9514108
    Abstract: Apparatuses, methods, and systems for automatic reference note generation are disclosed herein. The method includes identifying an information element that has been copied to a transfer buffer, collecting source reference information associated with the information element, wherein the source reference information includes at least one source identifier indicative of an origin of the information element, generating a reference note based on the source reference information and a reference note format specification, inserting the information element into a destination document, inserting the reference note into the destination document, wherein the reference note is associated with the information element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: GOOGLE INC.
    Inventors: Yen-Fu Chen, John W. Dunsmoir
  • Patent number: 9430303
    Abstract: An apparatus for inserting selected data from a source electronic document to a target electronic document includes a location tracking module and a data module. The location tracking module stores a location of a data insertion point within the target document. The data module inserts selected data from the source document at the data insertion point within the target document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2016
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) PTE. LTD.
    Inventors: Arnold S. Weksler, Neal Robert Caliendo, Jr., Antonio Bumarch, III, Russell Speight VanBlon
  • Patent number: 9396176
    Abstract: A technique for copying information from one or more sources to one or more destinations. Each destination in the one or more destinations is associated with an identifier. Information that is to be copied from a source is identified. An identifier associated with a destination is acquired. The identified information is then copied to the destination associated with the acquired identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Sachin Soni, Anmol Dhawan, Sachin Gaur, Ganesh Sahai
  • Patent number: 9354788
    Abstract: This specification related to a mobile terminal and a control method thereof. The mobile terminal includes a display unit to output an electronic document page including at least one object, and a controller to select one area on the page in response to a touch input applied onto the display unit, and control the display unit to display the selected one area in a distinguishing manner from the page.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Seunghyun Woo, Hayang Jung
  • Patent number: 9170669
    Abstract: A method includes displaying information on a touch-sensitive display and displaying an indicator at a first location in the information, detecting, on the touch-sensitive display, a first touch input associated with the indicator, in response to detecting the first touch input, moving the indicator from the first location to a second location in the information, wherein the second location is based on an increment level of the indicator, detecting, on the touch-sensitive display, a second touch input associated with the indicator, increasing the increment level of the indicator, and moving the indicator from the second location to a third location, wherein the third location is based on the increased increment level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITED
    Inventor: Michael Ryan Fenton
  • Patent number: 9164673
    Abstract: An improved interactive user interface for presenting functionalities of an application is provided. An application functionality applied to a data element range may be represented by a selectable preview element that provides a preview of the application functionality applied to the data element range. Upon selection of a preview element, one or more drop zones may be displayed. The preview element may be dragged to a drop zone and may animate into a visualization of the application functionality applied to the data element. The type of visualization that is displayed may be dependent on the drop zone to which the preview element is dragged. After a preview element is dropped into a drop zone, the functionality may be applied to the data element range and be displayed. The interactive data visualizations may encourage a user to explore features of an application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Karen X. Cheng, Benjamin Edward Rampson, Eric W. Patterson
  • Patent number: 9081487
    Abstract: A method and system for receiving input from a touch-sensitive device for manipulating an image shown in a display area. The method and system involve receiving an initial input for initializing an image manipulation for generating a mirror image in a mirroring direction, the mirroring direction is defined by a start and an end, the initial input corresponds to an initial location within the display area; receiving a first subsequent input corresponding to a first location, the first location corresponds to the start of the mirroring direction; receiving a second subsequent input corresponding to a second location, the second location corresponds to the end of the mirroring direction, the first and second locations are positioned on opposite sides of the initial location; and in response to the second subsequent input, generating the mirror image by mirroring the image according to the mirroring direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: Agfa HealthCare Inc.
    Inventor: Giovan Giuseppe Boccanfuso
  • Patent number: 9069432
    Abstract: Data from multiple source applications may be coped and stored in a buffer as data items. A user may iterate through the data items stored in the buffer after the source applications have been closed. The user may select one or more of the data items in the buffer and copy the selected one or more data items into a target application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Red Hat Israel, Ltd.
    Inventor: Yaniv Eylon
  • Patent number: 9037989
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for multi-source, multi-destination data transfers that include identifying a plurality of destination points having destination contexts in one or more destination objects; selecting source content for transfer; displaying destination contexts for the destination points; and directing source content to at least one destination point in dependence upon the displayed destination contexts. In typical embodiments, identifying destination points includes recording each identified destination point and storing in association with each recorded destination point a copy of a destination context for each recorded destination point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Viktors Berstis, Danny Yen-Fu Chen, John W. Dunsmoir
  • Publication number: 20150135112
    Abstract: In a first step of a two step content selection operation, initial content can be selected by detecting movement of a content selection object with respect to a computing device. The selection area can be calculated based on the object movement that is detected. The content within the selection area can be selected and displayed in a second display area overlaying the original content. The initial content can be copied into the second display area. All or part of the initial content can be enlarged, enabling the second step of the selection operation in which a subset of the initial content is selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Jerry Huang, Zhen Liu, Chiu Chun Bobby Mak
  • Patent number: 9008619
    Abstract: A mobile terminal that may be able to access a wireless communication network and a control method thereof are provided. The mobile terminal includes: a wireless communication unit configured to access a wireless communication network; a detection unit configured to detect a connectable wireless communication network through the wireless communication unit; and a controller outputting icons each corresponding to one or more wireless communication networks detected by the detection unit to a locked screen displayed in a locked state in which inputting of a control command with respect to an application is limited, releasing the locked state when selecting of any one of the output icons is detected, and controlling the wireless communication unit to access a wireless communication network corresponding to the selected icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: LG Electronics Inc.
    Inventors: Sanghyuck Lee, Eunju Lee, Byeongwook Kim
  • Publication number: 20150095827
    Abstract: A multiplicity of person images are classified into groups person by person. Representative thumbnail person images, which are representative of persons represented by person images included in respective ones of person image groups, are decided. The representative thumbnail person images decided are displayed on the display screen of an electronic album generating apparatus. A representative thumbnail person image, which represents a person desired to be pasted into a desired frame of the electronic album, is selected from among the representative thumbnail person images displayed. A person image to be pasted into a designated frame is decided automatically from among person images of a person represented by the representative thumbnail person image that has been selected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Hiroyasu YAMAMOTO, Yukita GOTOHDA
  • Patent number: 8990682
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods and devices for rendering interactions between virtual and physical objects on a substantially transparent display are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes displaying a user-interface on a substantially transparent display of a wearable computing device. The method further includes displaying a virtual object in the view region at a focal length along a first line of sight and detecting a physical object at a physical distance along a second line of sight. The method still further includes determining that a relationship between the focal length and the physical distance is such that the virtual object and the physical object appear substantially co-located in a user-view through the view region and, responsive to the determination, initiating a collision action between the virtual object and the physical object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Adrian Wong, Xiaoyu Miao
  • Patent number: 8990724
    Abstract: This invention provides an information processing apparatus which obtains screen information via a network from an external apparatus and displays an operation screen based on information registered in association with a specific application, when a predetermined key is operated while the specific application is in progress. To accomplish this, an MFP obtains screen information from a Web server based on URL information registered in association with a Web application, and displays the initial screen of the Web application, when a reset key is pressed while the Web application is in progress.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Masahito Yamamoto, Hisashi Nakamoto, Satoki Watariuchi
  • Publication number: 20150074578
    Abstract: In embodiments of text select and enter, selectable character strings (124) can be determined from text (118) that is displayed in display interfaces on a display device. A character string mapping table (122) can then be generated that identifies a selection position (126) of each selectable character string that is displayed. A selection of a selectable character string can be received, and the chosen selectable character string determined from the string mapping table based on a selection position on a touch-sensitive display component (106). The chosen selectable character string can then be duplicated as a text entry at a cursor position in a text edit field (120) responsive to the selection of the selectable character string and without additional user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2012
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Inventors: Lifeng Liang, Kun Zhao
  • Patent number: 8966379
    Abstract: Dynamic configuration of cross-environment applications enhances the computing experience in a computing environment with an extended active user environment and/or multiple active user environments. A mobile computing device maintains multiple active device configurations associated with multiple active user environments and/or application windows within active user environments. Device configuration qualifiers are determined from a variety of sources including device characteristics, device indicators, user settings, and/or application presentation. The mobile computing device selects active resource sets for applications based on the device configuration qualifiers. Application presentation is dynamically updated by disestablishing an application screen and establishing a new active application screen using a different resource set. The mobile computing device may be a smartphone running the Android mobile operating system and a full desktop Linux distribution on a modified Android kernel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2015
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Brian Reeves, Paul E. Reeves, Wuke Liu, Borys Sushchev
  • Patent number: 8959449
    Abstract: Variables incorporated into a hypertext markup language document enable location of hypertext elements. Once the variable is located, the information contained within the identified hypertext element may be used in other applications. The information may be received, as a recognized input, by the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Oleg B. Rashkovskiy
  • Patent number: 8949729
    Abstract: Enhanced copying and pasting between applications includes capturing information about open applications including a screenshot of each of the open applications shown in a viewable area of the open applications; in response to receiving a copy command while the user is interacting with a first application, presenting the screenshots of the other open applications to the user for selection; in response to the user selecting one of the screenshots corresponding to a second application, displaying visual content segments from the second application; in response to receiving a user selection of two or more of the visual content segments, copying the selected visual content segments; and inserting the selected visual content segments into the first application such that original spatial relations between the visual content segments from the second application are maintained when the visual content segments are inserted into the first application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Paul R. Bastide, Ralph E. LeBlanc, Jr., Fang Lu, Alaa Abou Mahmoud
  • Publication number: 20150033171
    Abstract: A segment ring menu is provided that is used to easily access menu items. The segment ring menu includes a number of menus that are located equidistant from an initial mouse position from where the segment ring menu is evoked. Hovering over any of the sections of the segment ring menu displays the menu items hosted in that section. The segment ring menu layout is directed at making it easy for the user to reach any of the menu items with a small amount of mouse movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: MICROSOFT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mirko Mandic, Marina Dukhon, Mark Pearson, Clay Satterfield
  • Publication number: 20150026620
    Abstract: A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to provide wireless communication; a touchscreen; a memory; and a controller configured to display a clipboard including copied content on the touchscreen, receive a paste selection signal indicating a pasting of the copied content from the clipboard to another location on the touchscreen, determine a property of the other location of the touchscreen, and modify a type of the copied content to correspond to the determined property of the other location when the content is pasted to the other location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Yunmi KWON, Arim KWON, Songyi BAEK, Sehyun JUNG, Eunsoo JUNG, Hyemi JUNG, Kyunghye SEO
  • Patent number: 8938691
    Abstract: An image processing apparatus is provided. The image processing apparatus is capable of executing a plurality of processing operations on input data and includes: a selection detecting unit configured to detect a selecting operation of a plurality of processing operations from among the plurality of processing operations; an operation information storing unit configured to store a plurality of processing operation information for specifying the processing operations detected by the selection detecting unit, respectively; a setting unit configured to set the plurality of processing operation information stored in the operation information storing unit, as a plurality of processing operations which are collectively executed in response to an execution instruction input to an instructing unit; and an executing unit configured to execute the plurality of processing operations corresponding to the plurality of processing operation information set by the setting unit, in response to the execution instruction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Brother Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Akikazu Murata, Hirofumi Oguri
  • Publication number: 20150012861
    Abstract: Various embodiments provide a method of providing a clipboard that is available to a user across multiple devices, regardless of the particular semantics governing a particular environment or computing device. In particular, a user having an account linking multiple computing devices can, in one example, sync items stored to a clipboard across each device, thereby enabling the user to cut/copy an item on one device and paste the item on another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventor: Evgeny Loginov
  • Publication number: 20150012862
    Abstract: There is provided an information processing apparatus including an operation recognition unit configured to recognize a drag start area in a first application and a droppable area in a second application, the drag start area being an area where an drag operation is started, and the second application being different from the first application, a paste content processing unit configured to analyze attributes of the drag start area and the droppable area, and to determine a paste content in response to a comparison result between the respective attributes, and a paste execution unit configured to paste the paste content determined by the paste content processing unit, in the droppable area, when the operation recognition unit recognizes a drop operation in the droppable area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: TETSUO IKEDA, DAISUKE NAGANO, DAISUKE SATO
  • Patent number: 8904544
    Abstract: Data received at, or created on, a device may be tagged as corporate dependent upon a service over which the data is received or an application in which the data is created. When a user attempts to insert tagged data into a data item that is to be transmitted by the device, the insertion may be prevented. Similarly, the transmission of tagged data may be restricted to only occur on a secure service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2014
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Van Quy Tu, Adrian Michael Logan, Andrew John Ewanchuk, Imtiaz Nadaf
  • Patent number: 8893017
    Abstract: In one example embodiment, a system and method is illustrated that includes receiving input to execute a function associated with a display element of a Graphical User Interface (GUI), the display element to display edit history data relating to a displayed portion of structured data. The system and method also includes retrieving the edit history data for the displayed portion of the structured data based upon the function, the edit history data reflecting changes made to the displayed portion of the structured data. The system and method also includes displaying the edit history data in the GUI as part of the display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Adobe Systems Incorporated
    Inventors: Todd Rein, Eylon Stroh, Shashi Rai, Marco Qualizza, Roman Dolgov, Chris Ethier, Robert Shaver
  • Publication number: 20140337775
    Abstract: A method is provided for copying and pasting a set of machine vision part program operations when editing a part program in a machine vision inspection system. The method includes: a) selecting at least a first instruction representation at a copy location in a displayed part program representation; b) performing copy operations by executing a first subset of modification operations directed to elements that are specific to a first operating context at the copy location, to thereby generate a partially modified selected instruction representation and/or its underlying instruction code; c) defining a paste location in the displayed part program representation; and d) performing paste operations by executing a second subset of modification operations directed to elements that are specific to a second operating context at the paste location, to thereby generate and paste onto the paste location a fully modified selected instruction representation and/or its underlying instruction code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Applicant: Mitutoyo Corporation
    Inventors: Ryan Northrup, Andy Ye, Iman Haryadi
  • Patent number: 8881060
    Abstract: A multifunction device displays a plurality of selectable user interface objects on the display. In response to detecting the first input, the device moves a first object in the plurality of selectable user interface objects across the display to a location on the display that is proximate to a second object in the plurality of selectable user interface objects. In response to detecting that the first input meets predefined folder-creation criteria while the first object is proximate to the second object, the device creates a folder that contains the first object and the second object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Marcel van Os
  • Patent number: 8863007
    Abstract: An illustrative embodiment of a computer-implemented method for information transfer displays a graphical user interface on a display device, wherein the graphical user interface has a plurality of regions defined by boundaries on the display device, wherein each region represents output from an associated data processing system, and responsive to an object in a first region in the plurality of regions in the graphical user interface being moved to a second region in the plurality of regions in the graphical user interface, transferring information associated with the object from a first data processing system associated with the first region to a second data processing system associated with the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Jian Ming Ang, Weng Chew Lo
  • Publication number: 20140304633
    Abstract: 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 that distinctly represents the data and stores the thumbnail and data in a clipboard. The thumbnail contains a miniaturized view of the data. The clipboard manager further allows the user to identify a paste location in the document that is to be edited. The clipboard manager displays the thumbnail in the clipboard in response to the user selecting a paste command. The user can employ the clipboard manager to insert the data at the paste location by selecting the thumbnail from the clipboard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2010
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Anmol Dhawan, Sachin Soni
  • Publication number: 20140304634
    Abstract: A mobile terminal device displays at least one category on a predetermined display unit upon reception of copy operation or cut operation with respect to display information which is to be displayed on the predetermined display unit. The mobile terminal device stores the display information which is subjected to the copy operation or the cut operation in the memory, while associating the display information with a category selected out of the at least one category displayed on the predetermined display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: FUJITSU LIMITED
    Inventors: Misa KUMAZAWA, Katsuaki AKAMA
  • Patent number: 8839130
    Abstract: An electronic apparatus includes a display unit, a sensor, and a controller. The display unit includes a screen. The sensor is configured to detect a user operation with respect to the screen and output a signal corresponding to the user operation. The controller is configured to cause a data icon to be displayed on the screen, judge a drag operation with respect to the data icon based on the signal from the sensor, judge, based on the signal from the sensor, a user operation different from the drag operation for one of copying and moving data related to the data icon based on the drag operation, and execute processing for one of copying and moving the data according to the user operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Sony Corporation
    Inventors: Tomohisa Tanaka, Tsuyoshi Ishikawa, Qihong Wang, Akihiro Komori
  • Publication number: 20140258905
    Abstract: A method is provided including: detecting a first gesture performed while a cursor is placed in an input field in a first application; displaying an application list in response to the first gesture; detecting a selection of a second application from the application list; opening a first file with the second application and displaying a content of the first file; detecting a second gesture being performed on a portion of the content of the first file; and inserting the portion of the content of the first file into the input field of the first application.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Da-Som LEE, Se-Jun SONG, Young-Eun HAN
  • Patent number: 8832543
    Abstract: 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 automatically include in a selection a paragraph marker at the end of a selected paragraph, if every other textual character in the paragraph has been selected. The present invention will discard a paragraph mark that is included in pasted text if the pasted text is pasted into the middle of another paragraph, indicating that the user prefers the formatting of the pasted-into paragraph. The present invention also reduces inconsistencies in formatting styles that may exist between source and target documents automatically redefining a style in the target document to conform to a corresponding style in the source document. The present invention also automatically adjusts paragraph spacing, in response to text being pasted into a target document.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Paul Broman, Glenn Frankel, Roberto C. Taboada
  • Patent number: 8832578
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media for displaying a clipboard. A method can include receiving at a client device, two or more copied pieces of content copied from one or more resources, receiving an indication to display the two or more copied pieces of content, determining a form field associated with the indication, ranking the two or more copied pieces of content based on the form field, and displaying at the client device, a clipboard with the two or more copied pieces of content ranked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Google Inc.
    Inventors: Roma Shah, Nicholas Jitkoff, Alex Ainslie
  • Patent number: 8832577
    Abstract: A multi-screen user device and a universal clipboard application are described. Specifically, the universal clipboard application can be open on one screen of the multi-screen device while another application, from which data is either being copied to the clipboard application or pasted from the clipboard application, is open on another screen of the multi-screen device. Inputs received on the screen displaying the universal clipboard application can cause content to be copied to an application being displayed on the other screen of the multi-screen device, thereby providing an intuitive user interface for the universal clipboard application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Z124
    Inventors: Sanjiv Sirpal, Paul Edward Reeves, Alexander de Paz, Eric Freedman, Jared L. Ficklin, Denise Burton, Misty Cripps, Gregg Wygonik
  • Publication number: 20140250369
    Abstract: A special paste feature presents a variety of options to a user for choosing the appearance of the pasted object or objects. When the user selects to specially paste the object, an interface is presented for the user to select from a variety of styles and format codes or predefined groups thereof to keep in the pasted object. Once the user selects the level of structure and formatting that he or she desires to import into the target document, the object will be copied into the target document or application using only the structure and formatting selected to remain by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2005
    Publication date: September 4, 2014
    Applicant: Macromedia, Inc.
    Inventors: Victor Mitnick, Jay London