Patent ID: 7757165
Filing Date: 2010-07-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for determining and applying one or more format attributes to content in an electronic document, the computer-implemented method comprising the steps of: determining, by one or more computing devices, a first set of format attributes, the first set of format attributes indicating local formatting of a first region of content in the electronic document, wherein selected content is a subset of the content in the first region, the content in the first region being a subset of the content in the electronic document, wherein local formatting of another region of the electronic document is different than the local formatting of the first region; determining, by the one or more computing devices, a second set of local format attributes, the second set of format attributes indicating local formatting of a second region of content in the electronic document, wherein the second region comprises a destination location; comparing, by the one or more computing devices, the first set of format attributes with the second set of format attributes; and in response to placing the selected content at the destination location, applying, by the one or more computing devices, to text characters in the selected content, those format attributes of the second set of format attributes that differ from the first set of format attributes.