Distributed clipboard

摘要

Techniques for providing a shared clipboard to participants in a conversation are provided. The shared clipboard is specific to the conversation to which it is associated in that the shared clipboard does not “spill over” from one conversation to another. When a conversation between two or more participants is established, a shared clipboard becomes available to the participants of the conversation. The shared clipboard facilitates the sharing of data between the participants in the conversation. During the conversation, each participant in the conversation is provided access to the shared clipboard, including its contents. When a participant joins or is added to the conversation, the added participant is also provided access to the shared clipboard and its contents.

主权项

1. A method in a collaboration application for providing a shared clipboard, the method comprising:
detecting that the collaboration application executing on a computing system has established a conversation with at least one other participant; and after detecting that the collaboration application has established the conversation,
creating a shared clipboard for the conversation, wherein the shared clipboard is operable to contain an object placed by a participant in the conversation, wherein an object placed in the shared clipboard is available to the participants in the conversation; andenforcing access control of an object when a participant requests to place the object in the shared clipboard, the access control restricting the sharing of the object, wherein when at least one participant does have access rights to the object, but at least one participant does not have access rights to the object, preventing the object from being placed in the shared clipboard.