Patent ID: 8020101

Claim:
A method for transferring an object in a mobile telephone between documents, the method comprising: using a mobile telephone processor operatively coupled with a communication infrastructure for: receiving from a user a selection of a subset of data in a first document in a first application, the selecting step comprising an action selected from a group consisting of: a click selection from a third pull-down menu, clicking on the target location, and highlighting the target location; receiving a user command to display a first pull-down menu on a graphical user interface, said first pull-down menu comprising a selection of commands for executing on the first application; presenting the first pull-down menu to the user on the graphical user interface; receiving a selection of a copy-to command from the first pull-down menu; presenting a second pull-down menu on the graphical user interface, said second pull-down menu listing inactive documents in which data can be inserted, wherein the second pull-down menu supersedes the first pull-down menu; wherein the superseding comprises an action selected from a group consisting of: overlaying the first pull-down menu, and displaying the second pull-down menu in the foreground; receiving from a user a selection of a second document from among the inactive documents, wherein the selection comprises highlighting of an object; activating the second document and placing the first document in inactive status; receiving from the user a selection of a target insertion area in the second document as a destination for the data selected; and inserting the selected subset of data at the target insertion area in the second document, wherein the inserting is executed responsive to, and immediately following the receipt of the selection of the target insertion area, without an intervening command.