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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070192677 | Method and a program for estimating building material quantities A method and a computer program for estimating item quantities in a building project that includes one or more items. The method includes steps for providing a spreadsheet template including a summary worksheet and one or more input worksheets with a plurality of cells ... | 08/16/2007 |
| 20070174760 | Multiple conditional formatting Generally described, embodiments of the present invention relate to applying and evaluating an unlimited number of conditional formatting rules to a given range of cells. Additionally, multiple conditional formatting rules may be evaluated to TRUE for the same cell cont... | 07/26/2007 |
| 20070157074 | System for and method of providing overview of a worksheet in an electronic report A worksheet overview system comprises an item information handler, an overview element handler, an overview area handler, and an overview synchronizer. The item information handler obtains item information relating to items of a worksheet. The overview element handler m... | 07/05/2007 |
| 20070130503 | Systems and methods providing dynamic spreadsheet functionality An advantageous system and method are provided for supporting and/or enabling the creation of dynamic reports and/or data presentation(s) in connection with a spreadsheet-based application or program. The disclosed system and method offer a full complement of spreadshee... | 06/07/2007 |
| 20070101252 | Variable formatting of cells Variable formatting for cells in computer spreadsheets, tables, and other documents is provided. For a selected range of cells, cell formats vary with the value in each cell (or an associated value). Formats can include color-scale backgrounds, in-cell elements (e.g., i... | 05/03/2007 |
| 20070079230 | Table column navigation Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for table columns navigation. A computer-implemented method of displaying information on a computer display device includes loading data into a memory, displaying a first view of a table user interface (UI) on ... | 04/05/2007 |
| 20070067710 | Navigating table data with mouse actions Methods, computer program products and systems are provided for navigating a display of a table in a computer application that includes enabling a context sensitive action menu, detecting activation of the action menu in the displayed table, and executing a table displa... | 03/22/2007 |
| 20070033518 | Computer-implemented method, system, and program product for hiding columns in an electronic table Under the present invention, when a user resizes or otherwise hides a column in the electronic table, a graphical indicia is displayed that represents the hidden column(s). If a user interacts with the indicia (e.g., by hovering a mouse/input device over it), a pop-wind... | 02/08/2007 |
| 20070028158 | Data processing method A process definition method is disclosed. The method is typically for use with a report compiled from source data stored in a database and displayed to a user as a table having a plurality of cells. The method comprises: a) presenting the table of cells to the user; b) ... | 02/01/2007 |
| 20070016850 | System for controlling the display size of a formula bar in a spreadsheet The present invention discloses a system for controlling the display size of a formula bar in a spreadsheet. Application of this system will make operation of the spreadsheet more convenient. The system for controlling the display size of the formula bar and a formula b... | 01/18/2007 |
| 20060288267 | Pre-formulated spreadsheet cell groups A computer-readable medium having computer-executable modules includes a computer spreadsheet application including a series of cells arranged in addressable rows and columns, and at least one set of linked cells having an embedded function and position relative to othe... | 12/21/2006 |
| 20060224947 | Scrollable and re-sizeable formula bar The present invention relates to new and improved embodiments of systems and methods for displaying content within a spreadsheet graphical user interface. In one embodiment, a computer system has a graphical user interface that performs a method for displaying data with... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060225001 | Method for requesting and viewing a preview of a table attachment on a mobile communication device A process is set forth for previewing a table attachment on a mobile communication device, and upon identifying table content of interest viewing and/or retrieving the entire table from an attachment server. In one embodiment, a small 4×4 row/column preview is presente... | 10/05/2006 |
| 20060206800 | Method for displaying editable characters in a divided table cell A divided table cell is generated by selecting one cell in a table and creating a new cell to display over the selected cell. Both cells contain a constraint that define an area where that cell cannot display objects. Objects comprise alphanumeric characters, graphical ... | 09/14/2006 |
| 20060136808 | Block properties and calculated columns in a spreadsheet application Block properties and improved calculated columns properties are provided in a spreadsheet application. Once block properties are set for a group of spreadsheet cells or a spreadsheet list, the properties may be applied to the entire group of selected cells or list as op... | 06/22/2006 |
| 20060129929 | System and method for automatically completing spreadsheet formulas A system and method for automatically completing a formula of a spreadsheet application, calculator application, accounting application, business application or banking application. One aspect of the present invention is a computer-implemented method for automatically c... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060129914 | Filter and sort by color The present invention comprises methods and user interfaces for organizing data displayed within a data application. Specifically, the present invention provides methods and systems for arranging the display of the data by a format applied to one or more portions of the... | 06/15/2006 |
| 20060095832 | Embedded spreadsheet commands A cell of a spreadsheet is automatically updated and a comment is determined to have a command associated with the update. In response to detecting the command, the command is processed. ... | 05/04/2006 |
| 20060080596 | Dynamic update of changing data in user application via mapping to broker topic A method and service for enabling a smallest unit of variable data within a data space of a user application to be dynamically updated using an external source. The application GUI is enhanced with a dynamic update utility (DUU) that enables the data unit to be selected... | 04/13/2006 |
| 20060080595 | Methods, systems and computer program products for processing cells in a spreadsheet Methods, systems and computer program products are provided for processing cells in a spreadsheet. A first formula contained in a first cell and a second formula contained in a second cell to provide a consolidated formula, wherein the second formula references the outp... | 04/13/2006 |
| 20060053383 | Integrated method for creating a refreshable web query The present invention allows a user to graphically create a refreshable Web Query by selecting tabular data displayed in a Web page. When the user invokes the refreshable Web Query command, an Internet browser module is launched within a Web Query dialog box open in the... | 03/09/2006 |
| 20060048044 | Logical spreadsheets A computerized spreadsheet system includes a set of cells and a separate set of logical constraints on the values of cells. The constraints may be many-to-many relationships that permit omni-directional propagation of values between cells. The constraints may be express... | 03/02/2006 |
| 20050289450 | User interface virtualization Systems and methods are provided for virtualizing a user interface. In particular, the present invention relates to providing access to a large amount of data while consuming a relatively small amount of a critical resource. The user interface is virtualized by allocati... | 12/29/2005 |
| 20050188298 | Displaying a web page in a browser window and a method for handling a web page In the method for displaying a web page, a web page received from a server and comprising a frameset is displayed in the browser window of a terminal in such a manner that the frameset is converted into a different format. In the method, the frameset is converted into a... | 08/25/2005 |
| 20050172223 | System and method for processing dynamic data sets in web applications Large data sets are displayed and processed. User mark-up language display provides a plurality of line items, each line item including a checkbox. A name/value pair is generated stored to a text string responsive to the user selecting a checkbox of a line item. The nam... | 08/04/2005 |
| 20050120293 | Table column spanning Disclosed are a method and system for grouping columns of data into different levels for subsequent multiple level operations. The method comprises the steps of providing sub-columns within a single table column, said table columns and each of the sub-columns having an ... | 06/02/2005 |
| 20050071753 | Variable size input areas in user interfaces Variable size user input areas that visually indicate an amount of characters that can be entered into a corresponding data field. A method involves displaying a user input area within a computer user interface wherein the user input area corresponds to a data field hav... | 03/31/2005 |
| 20050034060 | User interface for integrated spreadsheets and word processing tables An architecture integrates spreadsheet functionality into tables commonly used in word processing programs and HTML documents. The architecture presents a table user interface (UI) that resembles a table when not being edited and adds spreadsheet elements to the table w... | 02/10/2005 |
| 20050010862 | Method and system for manipulating labelled data for data entry in management applications A method is disclosed for data entry into the content of cells belonging to an output field, said data being expressed as a mathematical expression of the cell contents of at least one input field in a data multidimensional table used by a data management application. T... | 01/13/2005 |
