Clipboard listener detector
AssigneeMalikie Innovations Limited
InventorNeil Patrick Adams
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Abstract
A computer-implemented method of detecting clipboard listener applications that includes placing, by a clipboard listener-detector application, a content reference, such as a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), on a device clipboard; receiving, by the clipboard listener-detector application, at least one request from one or more clipboard listener applications for data based on the content URI; identifying the one or more clipboard listener applications from which said at least one request was received; and outputting an identity of each of the one or more identified clipboard listener applications.
Claims21
A computer-implemented method of detecting clipboard listener applications comprising:
- placing, by a clipboard listener-detector application, a content reference on a device clipboard, wherein the placing is not performed in response to user input;
- receiving, by the clipboard listener-detector application, at least one request from one or more clipboard listener applications for data based on the content reference, the at least one request for data received based on the one or more clipboard listener applications being notified of the content reference being placed on the device clipboard and not based on user input;
- identifying the one or more clipboard listener applications from which said at least one request was received;
- and
- outputting an identity of each of the one or more identified clipboard listener applications,
- wherein outputting an identity of each of the one or more identified clipboard listener applications includes displaying the identity on the device display.
A computing device configured to detect clipboard listener applications, the computing device comprising:
- a processor,
- a memory,
- a clipboard listener-detector application stored in the memory and containing processor executable instructions that, when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
- place a content reference on a device clipboard, wherein the content reference is not placed on the device clipboard in response to user input;
- receive at least one request from one or more clipboard listener applications for data based on the content reference, the at least one request for data received based on the one or more clipboard listener applications being notified of the content reference being placed on the device clipboard and not based on user input of;
- identify the one or more clipboard listener applications from which said at least one request was received;
- and
- output an identity of each of the one or more identified clipboard listener applications,
- wherein outputting an identity of each of the one or more identified clipboard listener applications includes displaying the identity on the device display.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing processor-readable instructions to detect clipboard listener applications in a computing device, wherein the processor-readable instructions, when executed, configure a processor to:
- place a content reference on a device clipboard, wherein the content reference is not placed on the device clipboard in response to user input;
- receive at least one request from one or more clipboard listener applications for data based on the content reference, the at least one request for data received based on the one or more clipboard listener applications being notified of the content reference being placed on the device clipboard and not based on user input;
- identify the one or more clipboard listener applications from which said at least one request was received;
- and
- output an identity of each of the one or more identified clipboard listener applications,
- wherein outputting an identity of each of the one or more identified clipboard listener applications includes displaying the identity on the device display.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.