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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:
Dec. 15, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 23, 2006
Applicants:
Benjamin C Chamberlain, Redmond, WA (US);
Bruce Cordell Jones, Bellevue, WA (US);
Christopher M Street, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric B Vigesaa, Seattle, WA (US);
Inventors:
Benjamin C Chamberlain, Redmond, WA (US);
Bruce Cordell Jones, Bellevue, WA (US);
Christopher M Street, Redmond, WA (US);
Eric B Vigesaa, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Generally described, embodiments of the present invention relate to applying and evaluating an unlimited number of conditional formatting rules to a given range of cells. Additionally, multiple conditional formatting rules may be evaluated to TRUE for the same cell contained in a user interface and multiple formats applied to that cell.