Patent ID: 7325038

Claim:
A method for transferring data between computers on a network, the method comprising the computer-implemented steps of: storing data from a file associated with a first application executing on a first computer on the network for transfer to a second computer on the network; periodically broadcasting, using a broadcast protocol, a source message to two or more destinations on the network, the source message indicating that the data from the file associated with the first application is stored for transfer to the second computer; wherein broadcasting comprises automatically determining, by a broadcasting service executing on the first computer and not based on specific selection of the two or more destinations on the network, to which two or more destinations on the network to simultaneously send the source message; receiving a destination message indicating a request to transfer the data from the file associated with the first application to the second computer; and in response to the destination message, transferring the data from the file associated with the first application over the network to the second computer, including pasting the data from the file associated with the first application directly into a specified location of a specified file associated with a second application executing on the second computer.