Patent ID: 8171390

Claim:
A computing system implemented process for viewing and transferring data between documents comprising: accessing a source document, the source document including source data; a user selecting at least a portion of the source data in the source document using a user interface device associated with a user computing system; using a processor associated with the user computing system to copy the selected portion of the source data; storing data representing the copy of the selected portion of the source data in a data storage means associated with the user computing system; accessing a given target electronic form, or other target document, the given target electronic form, or other target document, having one or more locations for entering data into the given target electronic form, or other target document; displaying the given target electronic form, or other target document, on a given user interface screen displayed on a display device associated with the user computing system; using the processor associated with the user computing system to parse the data representing the copy of the selected portion of the source data into one or more individual data elements, thereby transforming the data representing the copy of the selected portion of the source data into parsed source data; using the processor associated with the user computing system to transform at least part of the parsed source data into parsed clipboard content data including one or more individual data elements; storing the parsed clipboard content data in the data storage means associated with the user computing system; linking the parsed clipboard content data to a positionable pointing device; displaying the linked parsed clipboard content data and positionable pointing device on the given user interface screen, such that the linked parsed clipboard content data and positionable pointing device and the given target electronic form, or other target document, are simultaneously displayed in the given user interface screen; the user selecting a given one of the one or more individual data elements in the parsed clipboard content data the user desires to transfer to a given one of the one or more locations and for entering data into the given target electronic form, or other target document using the user interface device associated with the user computing system; the user transferring the given one of the one or more individual data elements in the parsed clipboard content data to the given one of the one or more locations for entering data into the given target electronic form, or other target document using the user interface device associated with the user computing system.