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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 30, 2020
Applicant:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);

Inventors:

Jared Brown, Seattle, WA (US);

John Thomas Kimbell, Kirkland, WA (US);

Patrick Evan Little, Redmond, WA (US);

Marianna Levant, Seattle, WA (US);

Rory Akira Malcolm Fairweather, Seattle, WA (US);

Lisa Marie Wright, Coupeville, WA (US);

Gurpreet Virdi, Redmond, WA (US);

Grigoriy Vyacheslavovich Lyukshin, Renton, WA (US);

David Chege Gitau, Seattle, WA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 16/16 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/04845 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 16/168 (2019.01);
Abstract

A method of operating a device, which includes providing a user interface with a display artifact; in response to an indication a user selected to copy the display artifact, storing multiple levels of detail of the display artifact; allowing the user to paste a selected level of detail by steps of: in response to an indication a user selected an input field and a paste command, displaying a plurality of paste options for pasting the display artifact into the input field, wherein the plurality of paste options each have a unique level of detail for representing the display artifact; allowing the user to select from the plurality of paste options; and in response to an indication a user selected a paste option from the plurality of paste options, pasting the display artifact with a level of detail associated with the selected paste option into the input filed.


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