Patent ID: 8037049
Filing Date: 2011-10-11
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A system for retrieving information, comprising: a memory buffer; a processor executing one or more application programs to provide a first and a second context within which a user can operate; and a data retrieval program executed by the processor to identify a transferable object in the first context while the user is operating in the first context and to automatically store in the memory buffer, without user intervention, information used to retrieve the transferable object, and to copy the transferable object to an object receptor in the second context while the user operates in the second context, the data retrieval program storing, in response to a traversal by the user from the first context to the second context, a marker in the memory buffer, the marker operating to signify an end of a first historical period associated with the first context and a start of a second historical period associated with the second context, to associate the transferable object identified in the first context with the first historical period, and to separate the information automatically stored in the memory buffer in the first historical period from information automatically stored in the memory buffer in the second historical period, wherein the memory buffer records a history of context traversals by the user that includes the traversal from the first context to the second context.