Patent ID: 11934546
Assignee: OPENFIN INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A method comprising:
generating alternative data from copied data from a first computer application;
adding the alternative data to a copy-paste clipboard; and
detecting an attempt by a user device to paste the copied data into a user interface, the method further comprising, by a processing device:
in response to the user interface being associated with a computer application from a predefined list of computer applications, pasting the copied data into the user interface; and
in response to the user interface being not associated with the computer application from the predefined list of computer applications, pasting the alternative data from the copy-paste clipboard into the user interface;

wherein generating the alternative data from the copied data includes generating a token associated with the copied data and adding the token to the copy-paste clipboard instead of the copied data;
storing the copied data in its original form, in a memory; and
associating the token with the copied data in the memory.