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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 09, 1999
Filed:
Sep. 15, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Akio Yamashita, Tokyo, JP;
Yuki Hirayama, Kawasaki, JP;
Assignee:
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
707509 ; 707503 ; 707507 ;
Abstract
A technique to make it possible to paste text display data in a text-editing program, which is arranged in table format and not formed into a geometrical format, onto a table region of a spreadsheet program as normal cell data by providing a table-format converter for processing data that is sent to a clipboard or transferred to a spreadsheet program by DDE. The table-data converter converts data to a format reflecting a table structure such as a CSV format by detecting the rule-lined data or spaces between columns of a table of the text-editing program.