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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 03, 2009
Filed:
Mar. 18, 2004
Su Chin Chang, Woodinville, WA (US);
Ravi Shahani, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Calcagno, Kirkland, WA (US);
Robert Stumberger, Seattle, WA (US);
Nicholas Caldwell, Lake Forest Park, WA (US);
Allan Folting, Redmond, WA (US);
Charles David Ellis, Seattle, WA (US);
Su Chin Chang, Woodinville, WA (US);
Ravi Shahani, Redmond, WA (US);
Michael Calcagno, Kirkland, WA (US);
Robert Stumberger, Seattle, WA (US);
Nicholas Caldwell, Lake Forest Park, WA (US);
Allan Folting, Redmond, WA (US);
Charles David Ellis, Seattle, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method of manipulating a software application and processing data stored in a data source. The method includes receiving a natural language input and analyze the natural language input to identify semantic information contained therein. Portions of the natural language input are associated with command objects and entity objects of a schema based on the semantic information and the natural language input. The method also includes rendering data from the data source in a table of columns and rows based on the schema and the associated portions of the natural language input.