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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 17, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 15, 2008
Yen-fu Chen, Austin, TX (US);
John W. Dunsmoir, Round Rock, TX (US);
John H. Bosma, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Keith R. Walker, Austin, TX (US);
Mei Yang Selvage, Austin, TX (US);
Yen-Fu Chen, Austin, TX (US);
John W. Dunsmoir, Round Rock, TX (US);
John H. Bosma, Cedar Park, TX (US);
Keith R. Walker, Austin, TX (US);
Mei Yang Selvage, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method for viewing and controlling data intermediately between source and destination by receiving from a graphical user interface a user designation of a plurality of sets of copy command destination positions within contents of a computer file, wherein each destination point is allowed to be included in more than one set of destination points; displaying to the user information elements contained in an operating system clipboard transfer buffer; receiving a user selection of information elements in the clipboard transfer buffer; receiving a user definition of a subset of the previously-designated copy command destination positions; and automatically copying the selected information elements to positions in the computer file according to the user defined subset of copy command destination positions.