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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:
Jul. 31, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2005
Applicants:
Alexander Martynov, Sammamish, WA (US);
David F. Gainer, Redmond, WA (US);
Howard J. Dickerman, Bellevue, WA (US);
Inventors:
Alexander Martynov, Sammamish, WA (US);
David F. Gainer, Redmond, WA (US);
Howard J. Dickerman, Bellevue, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); G06F 17/00 (2006.01); G06F 17/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An autocomplete method and system provides suggested completions for partial data entries based upon predefined coordinates, operands and/or commands. In one embodiment, the partial data entry may be in an active cell of a spreadsheet and the predefined coordinates may be queried from a separate, preconfigured, multi-dimensional database linked to the active cell or the spreadsheet.