Patent ID: 8863007

Claim:
A computer-implemented method for information transfer, the computer-implemented method comprising: displaying a graphical user interface on a display device comprising a user interface of each respective data processing system, providing a logically partitioned display area in a multiple system session, wherein the graphical user interface has a plurality of regions, each region defined by boundaries presented concurrently on a screen of the display device, wherein each region represents output from an associated different data processing system; tracking successive locations of a selector associated with a user input device for each data processing system associated with a respective region on the screen, wherein the tracking includes a visual cue representative of a dragging operation; detecting a crossing of the selector and an object dragged by the selector across a boundary indicating a plane has been crossed between a first region and a second region in the plurality of regions on the screen wherein the object represents information stored in a first data processing system associated with the first region; and responsive to detecting the crossing of the selector and the object, initiating a transfer of the information associated with the object from the first data processing system associated with the first region to an identified location in a second data processing system associated with the second region before dropping the object, wherein the initiating the transfer comprises one of obtaining file transfer default values from the first data processing system and obtaining location information from a user.