Patent Document ID: 7870502
Application ID: 11754662

Base Claim:
1. A method for copying a portion of source content, comprising: receiving a selection that identifies a portion of source content to be copied, to provide an identified portion, wherein the source content is expressed by corresponding markup information; identifying markup information associated with the identified portion, to provide identified markup information; identifying style information associated with the identified portion, to provide identified style information, at least part of the identified style information not being directly demarcated by the identified portion; extracting the identified style information to retain the identified style information with the portion of source content to be copied; and storing the identified markup information and the identified style information in a store to enable reproduction of style characteristics defined by the identified style information when the portion of source content is pasted into a target content.

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Claim 4:
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identifying of style information comprises identifying at least one node associated with the source content that is not directly demarcated by the identified portion, and extracting style information associated with said at least one node.