Patent ID: 7987418

Claim:
A system comprising: a processor; a memory coupled to the processor and including thereon program code that when executed by the processor provides: a web browser having displayed thereon a web page that includes content that may be copied, wherein said web browser further provides user selection mechanisms for selecting and copying said content; a content editor having a display area within which content may be inserted, said editor further including user selection mechanisms for pasting content that was selected and copied; bibliographical information tracking mechanisms associated with both said web browser and said editor that retrieves background bibliographical information of said content whenever said content is copied and automatically provides said bibliographical information for insertion into a bibliographical section within said editor; wherein said program code executes on the processor and provides the functions of: automatically providing bibliographical information associated with copied content; associating said bibliographical information with said copied content on an electronic page; responsive to a copy function performed on said content, creating a copy of said content and dynamically including the bibliographic information within a copy of said content, wherein said copy is created with its associated bibliographical data linked thereto; associating a deletion of the bibliographical information to a concurrent deletion of the copy of the content, wherein the deletion of the bibliographical information triggers a concurrent deletion of the copy of the content; and responsive to an output of the copy of the content to an output device, automatically outputting the bibliographical information along with the copy of said content.