Cognitive copy and paste

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10599772-B2
Application number	US-201715800949-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 1, 2017
Priority date	Nov 1, 2017
Publication date	Mar 24, 2020
Grant date	Mar 24, 2020

Abstract

A system, method and computer program product for cognitive copy and paste. The method includes: receiving, at a hardware processor of a computer system, an input representing a selection of a content captured from a source application program, and receiving an input representing an identified target application program that will receive the selected content to be copied and rendered in the target application program. The selected content is analyzed to determine a context for the selected content; and a rendering of the selected content at a location within the destination application based on the determined context, the rendering achieving a best representation of the selected content on the destination application. The analyzing includes invoking a natural language processor to determine an intent, meaning, or an intended use of the selected content based on the determined context, and employs a support vector machine for determining a best format change when rendering.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented cognitive content copy and paste system comprising:
a memory storage device; and
a hardware processor coupled to said memory storage device and configured to perform a method to:
receive an input representing a user selection of a content captured from a source application program running on a computer system;
receive a second input representing an identified destination application program that will receive the selected content to be copied and rendered in said destination application program;
analyze the selected content to determine a context for the selected content;
select a formatting change for rendering said selected content based on said determined context;
determine utilities associated with the source and identified destination application programs involving said selected formatting change; and
apply one or more of said determined utilities to render the selected content at a location within the identified destination application according to the formatting change based on said determined context, said rendering achieving a best representation of said selected content on said identified destination application, and
wherein prior to said rendering, said the hardware processor is further configured to:
determine that the selected content to be rendered within said identified destination application program will not match the rendering of the selected content from said source application program;
invoke operations for determining whether there is a pass-through application program available for rendering, and
responsive to determining that a pass-through application is available, first pasting selected content from said source application program to the pass-through application for first rendering the selected content in the candidate pass-through application program,

wherein said operations for determining whether there is a pass-through application program available for rendering further comprises:
a) selecting and activating a candidate pass-through application program on said computer system;
b) pasting the selected content into the selected candidate pass-through application and rendering the selected content in the candidate pass-through application program;
c) subsequently copying the rendered selected content from the candidate pass-through application program and pasting the selected content from the candidate pass-through application into the location at the identified destination application program;
d) rendering the selected content in the identified destination application program;
e) determining a measure of similarity between a format of the copied selected content as rendered in the source application program with format of the selected content as rendered by the identified destination application program copied from said candidate pass-through application program;
f) repeating said steps a) through e) for each of additional candidate pass-through application program; and
g) determining said pass-through application program as a candidate pass-through application program having a highest similarity measure.

2. The system of claim 1 , further comprising:
a natural language processor configured for determining said context of a selected content, said context comprising one or more of: an intent or meaning of the selected content, or an intended use of the selected content.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein said hardware processor is further configured to:
invoke operations to obtain from a memory storage device, data representing the selected formatting change for said selected content based on said determined context.

4. A computer readable medium comprising instructions that, when executed by at least one processor comprising hardware, configure the at least one processor to:
receive an input representing a user selection of a content captured from a source application program running on a computer system;
receive a second input representing an identified destination application program that will receive the selected content to be copied and rendered in said target application program;
analyze the selected content;
determine a context for the selected content;
select a formatting change to render said selected content based on said determined context;
determine utilities associated with the source and said identified destination application programs involving said selected formatting change; and
apply one or more of said determined utilities to render the selected content at a location within the identified destination application based on said determined context, said rendering achieving a best representation of said selected content on said identified destination application, and
wherein prior to said rendering, said the hardware processor is further configured to:
determine that the selected content to be rendered within said identified destination application program will not match the rendering of the selected content from said source application program;
invoke operations for determining whether there is a pass-through application program available for rendering, and
responsive to determining that a pass-through application is available, first pasting selected content from said source application program to the pass-through application for first rendering the selected content in the candidate pass-through application program,

wherein said operations for determining whether there is a pass-through application program available for rendering further comprises:
a) selecting and activating a candidate pass-through application program on said computer system;
b) pasting the selected content into the selected candidate pass-through application and rendering the selected content in the candidate pass-through application program;
c) subsequently copying the rendered selected content from the candidate pass-through application program and pasting the selected content from the candidate pass-through application into the location at the identified destination application program;
d) rendering the selected content in the identified destination application program;
e) determining a measure of similarity between a format of the copied selected content as rendered in the source application program with format of the selected content as rendered by the identified destination application program copied from said candidate pass-through application program;
f) repeating said steps a) through e) for each of additional candidate pass-through application program; and
g) determining said pass-through application program as a candidate pass-through application program having a highest similarity measure.

5. The computer readable medium according to claim 4 , wherein said instructions further comprise instructions to:
invoke a natural language processor to determine said context of a selected content, said context comprising one or more of: an intent or meaning of the selected content, or an intended use of the selected content.

6. The computer readable medium according to claim 4 , wherein said instructions further comprise instructions to:
invoke operations at said hardware processor to obtain from a memory storage device, data representing the selected formatting change for said selected content based on said determined context.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Hewitt Trudy L
• Dunne Jonathan
• Anders Kelley
• Grant Robert

Classifications

• G06F40/16

  Automatic learning of transformation rules, e.g. from examples · CPC title

• G06F9/543

  User-generated data transfer, e.g. clipboards, dynamic data exchange [DDE], object linking and embedding [OLE] · CPC title

• G06F40/216

  using statistical methods · CPC title

• G06F40/30 Primary

  Semantic analysis · CPC title

• G06F40/166

  Editing, e.g. inserting or deleting · CPC title