Interacting with a clipboard store
US10627993B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 8, 2016 |
| Grant date | Apr 21, 2020 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 4, 2037 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06F9/543
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A clipboard component provides a multi-item clipboard store. The clipboard component uses a technical strategy that facilitates its efficient adoption and use by end users and application developers. From an end user's standpoint, the clipboard component provides a new user experience which is easy for the users to discover, learn and use, due, in part, to the use of ergonomic control mechanisms for activating paste and copy operations. From a developer's standpoint, the clipboard component provides a way of allowing existing legacy applications to interact with a multi-item clipboard store, even though these applications were not originally created to provide that type of interaction. The clipboard component can also, upon instruction by a user, apply one or more supplemental operations to a copied content item, such as transferring the item to a target computing device.
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