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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 31, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2005
Matthew Charles Gauthier, Redmond, WA (US);
Yaniv Inbar, Bellevue, WA (US);
Tyson Murray, Maple Valley, WA (US);
Wentao Chen, Sammamish, WA (US);
Andy Verprauskus, Seattle, WA (US);
Richard Jacques, Kirkland, WA (US);
Matthew Charles Gauthier, Redmond, WA (US);
Yaniv Inbar, Bellevue, WA (US);
Tyson Murray, Maple Valley, WA (US);
Wentao Chen, Sammamish, WA (US);
Andy Verprauskus, Seattle, WA (US);
Richard Jacques, Kirkland, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention allows a user to graphically create a refreshable Web Query by selecting tabular data displayed in a Web page. When the user invokes the refreshable Web Query command, an Internet browser module is launched within a Web Query dialog box open in the spreadsheet program. The user then graphically selects at least one instance of tabular data to import to the spreadsheet program. The invention also makes Web queries more accessible to a user and is embedded in a software utility, known as a Web query Smart Tag (WQST) utility. The WQST utility allows a user to create Web queries directly from an Internet browser module in one of several methods.