Patent ID: 7325195

Claim:
An electronically controlled method of selecting and copying selected information segments from an input series of information segments so as to create an output sequence constituting a new information body, comprising the steps of: (a) utilizing an electronic apparatus fo establish a transfer location into which all of the information segments are to pass in sequence; (b) utilizing the electronic apparatus to set a dwell time for each of the successive information segments to pause in the transfer location; (c) moving the input series of information segments into and through the transfer location and visibly displaying each information segment in the transfer location during that dwell time; (d) as the information segments occupy the transfer location, copying selected ones of them into the output sequence; (e) at the end of each dwell time interval, allowing the next succeeding information segment in the input series to enter the transfer location; (f) after such movement of the input series, from time to time manually controlling the apparatus to select a different dwell time; and (g) after the change in dwell time, again moving the input series into and through the transfer location so that during such further passage of the input information segments the time available to the operator for deciding upon each prospective transfer is the thus-modified dwell time.