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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. 24, 2024

Filed:

Sep. 30, 2021
Applicant:

Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventor:

Zachary West, San Francisco, WA (US);

Assignee:

Dropbox, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/54 (2006.01); G06F 3/0484 (2022.01); G06F 9/451 (2018.01); G06F 16/11 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/543 (2013.01); G06F 3/0484 (2013.01); G06F 9/451 (2018.02); G06F 16/116 (2019.01);
Abstract

Techniques are provided to enable paste operations to directly create files, of an appropriate file type, within a file system based on non-file content items contained in a clipboard at the time of the paste operation. In addition to clipboard-to-file paste operations that create a single file based on a single non-file content item in the clipboard, techniques are described herein for performing one-to-many clipboard-to-file paste operations. In one-to-many clipboard-to-file paste operations, multiple files are created, in different file formats, for the same non-file content item, in response to a single clipboard-to-file paste operation. Techniques are also provided for many-to-many clipboard-to-file paste operations, where a single paste operation creates files for multiple distinct non-file content items identified within the buffered-content-data. Thus, a single clipboard-to-file paste operation may result in creation of files for two different images, a text file, and a shortcut file.


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