EASY COPY-IMPROVISING TRADITIONAL COPY

摘要

The clipboard generally allows us to paste only the last copied item. The functionality of copying multiple files and folders containing various text, image, video files etc. at the same time is not an inbuilt functionality in many Operating Systems. In this patent we .propose a platform independent interface that allows us to copy multiple and heterogeneous data items at the same time and paste them in any order and any location ,as desired. This interface keeps track of the items copied in a l i s t that the user has access to and the user decides whether to paste a particular item or to remove it from Lt~e list. The user can decide to paste individual or multiple items in a list in any location. The items can be pasted individually or collectively as a list using FIFO and LIFO order. -- I he benefit of this application is that it helps us copy items from various locations and helps us to manage the paste operation in any order as desired by the user. The user can select items it wants to paste from the copied list and paste them in any location of preference. The project basically aims at retrieving items from the clipboard and placing those items into the application's list, the user can then use this list to retrieve and place new items from the clipboard to the application's list. Also the user can use this list to place the desired item back into the clipboard without losing the item itself i.e. the list necessarily retains the items of the system's clipboard. The patent claim was used to develop an application to provide a way of placing and retrieving items in and out of the system's clipboard in a list like fashion. This helps in providing the user an easy way of retaining the complete history of items that have been placed earlier on to the system's clipboard. The data item can be any piece of text, images, files, folder or any combination of files and folders. This implementation is platform independent and adds no significant overhead to the copy paste operation. The patent was implemented in JAVA language that provides platform independency and hence flexibility on user's part to use the same program across multiple platforms.