Appeal No. 2006-3121
Application No. 10/165,083
Specifically, source information is automatically retrieved responsive to cutting or
copying the object from a first document. The source information is then
incorporated into the second document responsive to pasting the object into the
second document.
Representative claims 1 and 31 are reproduced as follows:
1. A method in a data processing system for automatically providing
source information associated with an object, the method comprising the
computer-implemented steps of:
in response to an operation that copies an object contained in a first
document to a first buffer, requesting source information associated with the
object from a first application displaying the first document;
retrieving the source information from the first application displaying the
object; and
in response to an operation that pastes the object to a second document,
sending the source information to a second application displaying the second
document, wherein the second application incorporates the source information
into the second document in association with the object; and
displaying the second document.
31. A computer program product in a computer readable medium for
managing source information, the computer program product comprising:
responsive to detecting an operation that pastes an object into a
document in a target application, first instructions for obtaining source information
for the object from a source application from which the object was copied;
second instructions for sending the source information to the target
application;
third instructions for incorporating the source information into the
document; and
fourth instructions for displaying the document.
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