Patent ID: 6309305
Filing Date: 2001-10-30
Classification: G06F,H04M

Abstract:
A method of transferring data from one application to another in an application handling unit of a mobile telephone controlling a plurality of applications, the transfer being handled by copying data from a message received in the phone and pasting only a portion of the data corresponding to a format of a receiving application of the phone, the method comprising the steps of:identifying predetermined types of subitems in the contents of the data in the clipboard;analyzing each subitem to determine if the subitem has a data format corresponding to a data format of the receiving application; anddisplaying only the subitems that are available for pasting into the receiving application for selection by the user, wherein upon activating a pasting command the user can paste one or more of the displayed subitems into the receiving application without having to individually copy and paste each subitem.