Patent Document ID: 9697186
Application ID: 13784623

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: extracting a portion of style information from at least one source of style information, the portion of style information extracted corresponding to content that is identified by a user for copying from a source document, at least some of the style information being demarcated separately from the user-identified content, and the portion of style information being extracted from a source of style information that is external to the source document from which the user-identified content is identified responsive to a determination that the at least one source of style information includes an external source of style information; storing the portion of style information that is extracted with the user-identified content that is extracted in a clipboard store; and responsive to input to paste at least one portion of the stored content at a specified location within a target document, reconstructing the at least one portion of stored content at the specified location using the extracted portion of style information to have a same visual appearance at the specified location as in the source document.

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Claim 2:
2. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the at least one source of style information is external to the source document from which the content is identified.