Sun Microsystems, Inc.

David J Proulx

Akhil Arora

Terrence Barr

Herbert Ong

Mingchi Stephen Mak

Paul J Rank

Methods and Systems in accordance with the present invention provide a file format for storing spreadsheets compactly on PDAs. PDAs only contain a limited amount of computer memory due to their small size and processing ability. To reduce memory constraints caused by PDA spreadsheet applications, the present invention reduces memory allocated for file storage by optimizing the compression of individual spreadsheet files within a database record storage system. This method and system in accordance with the present invention uses a collection of records to represent a spreadsheet file.

Method and apparatus for a file format for storing spreadsheet compactly

A method for testing performance of a constrained resources computing device (CRCD) is provided which includes determining that a data sample was generated and generating a time stamp corresponding to when the data sample was generated. The method also includes determining a defined time interval corresponding to the time stamp and incrementing a counter associated with the defined time interval corresponding to the time stamp.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

David J Proulx