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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 24, 2009
Filed:
May. 08, 2003
Faisal M. Awada, Round Rock, TX (US);
Joe Nathan Brown, Austin, TX (US);
Philip Bernard Burkes, Round Rock, TX (US);
Herman Rodriguez, Austin, TX (US);
Faisal M. Awada, Round Rock, TX (US);
Joe Nathan Brown, Austin, TX (US);
Philip Bernard Burkes, Round Rock, TX (US);
Herman Rodriguez, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of enabling a user to manage items such as text, graphics image, audio clips, video clips etc. on a clipboard are provided. The method includes displaying a window having at least one option for managing the items on the clipboard and allowing the user to assert the option to manage the items. In another embodiment, a method is provided to indicate a selected item at a location in a document displayed in a graphical user interface with a scrollbar. The method includes selecting the item, determining whether the item is a file, and displaying, if the item is a file, an icon representing the file in the scrollbar at a location corresponding to the location of the highlighted item.