Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Microsoft Corporation

Anatoly V Grabar

Allan Folting

Diego M Oppenheimer

Gabhan Berry

Stephen Van De Walker Handy

Danny Khen

Andrew Garbuzov

Tigran Hayrapetyan

Chad B Rothschiller

Robert C Collie

Kevin Lane Brown

Howard J Dickerman

Konrad Tupaj

Kevin Thomas Brown

Amit Velingkar

Carl Brenn Sutter, Iv

Venkata Srinivas Irava

Joshua J Burkholder

Stephen Van Handy

Amit A Velingkar

Systems and devices for coordinating heterogeneous processes of a software application to comply with multiple address spaces or other computing system constraints are disclosed. In an example, operations for coordinating data processing among multiple processes of a software application include: executing a first process of the software application, as the first process operates with a first capability that is limited to an operational constraint of the computing system; initiating a second process of the software application, as the second process is initiated as a child of the first process, and as the second process operates with a second capability that exceeds the operational constraint of the computing system; communicating data from the first process of the software application to the second process; and receiving data from the second process of the software application, in response to the data being processed by the data analysis operations of the second process.

Address space splitting for legacy application compatibility

Generally described, embodiments of the present invention provide the ability to sort and/or filter information contained in a summary table based on related information that may not be included in the summary table. According to one aspect, a computer-readable medium having computer executable components for filtering or sorting information displayed in a summary table is provided. Included in the computer executable medium is a category receipt and identification component configured to receive selections of categories and identify related categories contained in a dataset represented by the summary table. Also included in the computer-readable medium is a filtering component and a sorting component, each configured to control the structure and criteria upon which information contained in a category displayed in the data summary table may be filtered or sorted.

Filtering and sorting information

Electronic files are selectively assigned to a plurality of different indexing queues by one or more dynamic throughput threshold gates based on characteristics of the different indexing queues as well as the static file characteristics associated with each of the files. The files are then indexed. Upon detecting a change in a dynamic characteristic of one or more indexed files, the throughput threshold gate(s) are then modified to obtain, maintain or modify a desired throughput for one or more of the indexing queues.

Dynamic threshold gates for indexing queues

A system for automatically detecting relationships in spreadsheet data is disclosed. The system may be configured to analyze data items in the spreadsheet to determine whether two or more data items are unrelated. If the two or more data items are unrelated, then the system may notify a user of a need to define the relationship, and automatically defines the relationship for the two or more data items, or suggests the relationship to the user.

Automatic relationship detection for spreadsheet data items

An index server may be configured to collect content associated with an entity, and process the content for indexing at a primary index queue. At least one portion of the content may be marked for exclusion from the primary index queue, and the marked content may be transferred to a secondary index queue to be processed for indexing. A comprehensive index may be stored based on the processing performed at the primary and secondary index queues such that the content associated with the entity is wholly represented by indexed content. If the secondary index queue is disabled, automatically or in response to a request from the entity, the content processed for indexing at the primary index queue may be stored in an index excluding the marked content. In some examples, the comprehensive index and/or the index with excluded marked content may be provided to a compliance server for analysis.

Secondary queue for index process

A system and method for creating a report in a spreadsheet is disclosed. The system and method identifies a source of data items associated with the spreadsheet. The data items that are associated with the report that is generated in the spreadsheet are identified. A display including a field pane with an active tab and an all tab. The active tab displaying those data items that are determined to be associated with the report that is being generated in the spreadsheet. The all tab displaying all of the data items associated with the spreadsheet.

Selective generation and display of data items associated with a spreadsheet

Techniques for dynamic cross-filtering are described. An apparatus may comprise a filter manager component for an application program. The filter manager component is operative to manage cross-filtering operations for the application program. The filter manager component may comprise a filter control module operative to determine a selection state for a filter data element of a first filter component, and a relationship state for the filter data element of the first filter component with a filter data element of a second filter component. The filter manager component may also comprise a filter interface module communicatively coupled to the filter control module. The filter interface module is operative to dynamically display a different visual indicator for the filter data elements based on the selection state and the relationship state, among other filter criteria or filter states. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques for dynamic cross-filtering

To sort data items in a spreadsheet table, data items in the spreadsheet table are divided into a plurality of blocks. Multiple threads are used to sort the data items in the blocks. After the data items in the blocks are sorted, multiple merge threads are used to generate a final result block. The final result block contains each of the data items in the spreadsheet table. Each of the merge threads is a thread that merges two source blocks to generate a result block. Each of the source blocks is either one of the sorted blocks or one of the result blocks generated by another one of the merge threads. A sorted version of the spreadsheet table is then displayed. The data items in the sorted version of the spreadsheet table are ordered according to an order of the data items in the final result block.

Multi-threaded sort of data items in spreadsheet tables

Techniques for filter sharing are described. An apparatus may comprise a shared filter manager component for an application program. The shared filter manager component may be operative to manage shared filtering operations for the application program. The shared filter manager component may comprise a shared filter interface module operative to receive a selection for a shared filter component to filter multiple source data objects, and assign the shared filter component to the multiple source data objects. The shared filter manager component may further comprise a shared filter control module communicatively coupled to the shared filter interface module. The shared filter control module may be operative to filter data from the multiple source data objects using the shared filter component. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Techniques for filter sharing

A graphical user interface for creating a data summary table includes a pane including a plurality of fields, and a data summary table. Upon selection of a field to include in the data summary table, the user interface is programmed to analyze the field and automatically place the field in the data summary table.

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Redmond, WA, United States of America

Anatoly V Grabar