Patent ID: 7373603

Claim:
A method for providing data reference information, comprising: setting, on a second computer application, copy data characteristics of data, wherein the copy data characteristics indicates an amount of data that identifies when data reference information related to the data is automatically pasted to the second computer application, wherein the copy data characteristics include at least one member of a group comprising: a predetermined data size, a predetermined data amount, and a predetermined type of data; selecting data from a first computer application, wherein the first computer application is a Web-browser application, and wherein the Web-browser application provides the data reference information in an HTML format that is based on meta-data; copying the data from the first computer application to a memory; copying the copy data reference information related to the copied data from the first computer application to the memory; pasting the copied data from the memory to the second computer application; by accessing the copied data characteristics of data of the second computer application, determining when the amount of data of the copied data indicates that the copy data reference information related to the copied data is automatically pasted to the second computer application; automatically pasting the data reference information related to the copied data from the memory to the second computer application when the amount of data of the copied data indicates that the data reference information related to the copied data is automatically pasted to the second computer application; omitting the copy data reference information when the amount of data of the copied data does not indicate that the copy data reference information related to the copied data is automatically pasted to the second computer application; obtaining pasting data reference information from the second computer application, wherein obtaining pasting data reference information from the second computer application includes the second computer application copying the pasting reference information from a third computer application and pasting the pasting reference information to the second computer application so that the pasting reference information can be reviewed along with the reference information and wherein the pasting data reference information includes at least one member of a group comprising: the date the data was copied, the time the data was copied, the identity of the user who pasted the data, the identify of the user who copied the data, the date the data was pasted, and the time the data was pasted; and automatically pasting the pasting reference information from the memory to the second computer application.