Patent ID: 8667410
Filing Date: 2014-03-04
Classification: G06F,G06K

Abstract:
1. A method for computer-aided transfer of document data from a document application into a data application having a set of data fields, comprising the steps of: displaying, on a display device by a processor of a computer executing instructions embodied on a non-transitory computer readable medium, a document in the document application opened on the computer, wherein the document contains said document data to be transferred into the data application which is also opened on the computer; in response to user activation of an integrated single click entry functionality of the data application, the integrated single click entry functionality of the data application appending a window to a cursor displaying on the display device, the window having a name of a data field in the data application into which said document data from the document opened in the document application are to be transferred, the window being moveable with and adjacent to the cursor on the document in the document application; identifying, by the integrated single click entry functionality of the data application, a corresponding data value in the document on the display device where the cursor is positioned in the document application, wherein the identifying occurs solely and automatically by movement of the cursor and wherein information displayed in the window changes with the movement of the cursor; automatically reading out, by the integrated single click entry functionality of the data application from a memory region associated with the document application, a character string representing the data value in the document, the data application and the document application associated with separate memory regions at the computer; displaying, by the integrated single click entry functionality of the data application, the character string in the window appended to the cursor; and importing the character string into the data field in the data application via actuation of a predetermined button.