Contextual copy and paste across multiple devices

A computer program product for providing context-based copy and paste commands, the computer program product comprising:

• one or more computer readable storage media and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the stored program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to monitor a plurality of user activities across one or more user devices for a plurality of copied content items and associated contextual data wherein the monitoring is of a fixed number of content items during a pre-defined time period, and wherein the monitoring is based, at least in part, on one or more user preferences that:
• (i) define a type of data that indicates privileged data and non-privileged data, and (ii) control which of the one or more user devices that can access and paste the type of data;
• program instructions to generate a list of the plurality of copied content items and the associated contextual data;
• program instructions to, responsive to a determination that a user issued a paste command, calculate a relevancy score for each of the plurality of copied content items in the list, wherein the relevancy score is calculated based, at least in part, on a source application from which each of the plurality of copied content items were copied and a type of activity being performed on the source application when each of the plurality of copied content items were copied;
• program instructions to determine at least one of the plurality of copied content items to fulfill the paste command based, at least in part, on the relevancy score for each of the plurality of copied content items;
• and
• program instructions to present the at least one of the plurality of copied content items to the user to select for the paste command.

A computer system for providing context-based copy and paste commands, the computer system comprising:

• one or more computer processors;
• one or more computer readable storage media;
• and
• program instructions stored on at least one of the one or more computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the stored program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to monitor a plurality of user activities across one or more user devices for a plurality of copied content items and associated contextual data wherein the monitoring is of a fixed number of content items during a pre-defined time period, and wherein the monitoring is based, at least in part, on one or more user preferences that:
• (i) define a type of data that indicates privileged data and non-privileged data, and (ii) control which of the one or more user devices that can access and paste the type of data;
• program instructions to generate a list of the plurality of copied content items and the associated contextual data;
• program instructions to, responsive to a determination that a user issued a paste command, calculate a relevancy score for each of the plurality of copied content items in the list, wherein the relevancy score is calculated based, at least in part, on a source application from which each of the plurality of copied content items were copied and a type of activity being performed on the source application when each of the plurality of copied content items were copied;
• program instructions to determine at least one of the plurality of copied content items to fulfill the paste command based, at least in part, on the relevancy score for each of the plurality of copied content items;
• and
• program instructions to present the at least one of the plurality of copied content items to the user to select for the paste command.