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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 01, 2016
Microsoft Technology Licensing, Llc, Redmond, WA (US);
John Campbell, Woodinville, WA (US);
Carlos Augusto Otero, Seattle, WA (US);
Benjamin Edward Rampson, Woodinville, WA (US);
Allison Rutherford, Seattle, WA (US);
Steven Kraynak, Sammamish, WA (US);
Christian Canton, Bellevue, WA (US);
Samuel C. Radakovitz, Seattle, WA (US);
Simon Peyton Jones, Cambridge, GB;
Andrew Becker, Duvall, WA (US);
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure describes a value referred to as a compound object that stores multiple values in a single cell, wherein those multiple values are organized according to a defined structure. The compound object may store multiple values according to a known defined data structure such as, for example, a record, vector, matrix, table, or array. In other embodiments, the compound object may store multiple values as any nested combination of any one of the known or user-defined data structures. Each of the values stored in the compound object are individually referenceable and can fully participate with spreadsheet functionality including calculations, referencing, and formatting.