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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020

Filed:

Sep. 20, 2018
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Kyle G. Christianson, Rochester, MN (US);

Joshua S. Allen, Durham, NC (US);

Hassan Nadim, San Francisco, CA (US);

Andrew R. Freed, Cary, NC (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 7/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/332 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/3329 (2019.01); G06F 16/3323 (2019.01);
Abstract

A method, system and computer-usable medium are disclosed for associating data cells with headers and header labels. In certain embodiments, a table having rows and columns is received, wherein the table includes a plurality of cells, wherein each cell is populated with at least one of a header name, data value, or no information. A determination is made as to whether a cell is a header cell or data cell. If the cell is a header cell, current list of column and current list of row headers are dynamically updated. The current list of column and row headers are assigned to the cell regardless of whether the cell is a header cell or data cell. Headers associated with header cells are used to identify label candidates for the header name of the header cell. The labels may be used to provide additional context for headers within a data cell.


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