Patent ID: 8650500

Claim:
A network system comprising: a network having network objects including a source network object and a target network object; a display for displaying a source graphical object representing said source network object in a first configuration, a target graphical object representing said target network object in a second configuration, and in response to a user initiated copy-and-paste operation in which said source graphical object is the source for a copy portion of said copy-and-paste operation and in which said target graphical object is the target to which a paste portion of said copy-and-paste operation is applied, displaying said target graphical object so that it represents said target network object in a third configuration resulting from applying said first configuration to said target network object in said second configuration; a comparison function, said source network object having a source output, said target network object having a target output, said display, in response to said copy-and-paste operation, representing potential connections between said comparison function and said source output and between said comparison function and said target output; and implementation means for implementing said third configuration on said target network object.