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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
John Campbell, Woodinville, WA (US);
Benjamin Edward Rampson, Woodinville, WA (US);
Christian Canton, Bellevue, WA (US);
Carlos Augusto Otero, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to enriching a compound object with data provided by a third party service, database, or local database. In some embodiments, this is performed by receiving an entry of a value in a cell of a spreadsheet; determining whether the value is related to information provided by a service; based on a determination that the value is related to information provided by the service, selecting the service; displaying a field selection user interface; receiving a selection of one or more fields from the field selection user interface; receiving one or more values associated with the selected one or more fields; and enriching a compound object based on the selected one or more fields and associated one or more values.