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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 03, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 13, 2012
Paul R. Bastide, Boxford, MA (US);
Ralph E. Leblanc, Jr., Pepperell, MA (US);
Fang LU, Billerica, MA (US);
Alaa Abou Mahmoud, Dracut, MA (US);
Paul R. Bastide, Boxford, MA (US);
Ralph E. LeBlanc, Jr., Pepperell, MA (US);
Fang Lu, Billerica, MA (US);
Alaa Abou Mahmoud, Dracut, MA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Enhanced copying and pasting between applications includes capturing information about open applications including a screenshot of each of the open applications shown in a viewable area of the open applications; in response to receiving a copy command while the user is interacting with a first application, presenting the screenshots of the other open applications to the user for selection; in response to the user selecting one of the screenshots corresponding to a second application, displaying visual content segments from the second application; in response to receiving a user selection of two or more of the visual content segments, copying the selected visual content segments; and inserting the selected visual content segments into the first application such that original spatial relations between the visual content segments from the second application are maintained when the visual content segments are inserted into the first application.