Patent ID: 6532474
Filing Date: 2003-03-11
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
An information processing apparatus capable of carrying out data linkage among a plurality of activated applications, the apparatus comprising:designating device for designating data desired to be stored on an activated application which is currently in execution; judging circuit for judging whether the data designated by the designating device comprises any one of text data, image data, and text and image data; storage circuit for storing a plurality of pieces of data in accordance with the basis of a result of the judgement by the judging circuit, said text data being stored in a text buffer, said image data being stored in an image buffer and said text and image data being respectively stored separately in said text and image buffers together with linking information to each other; selecting device for selecting a desired data from among the plurality of pieces of data stored in the storage circuit; and reading circuit for reading the data selected by the selecting device on another activated application desired to be linked.