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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 15, 2014
Filed:
Aug. 12, 2009
Vladimir Brad, Ottawa, CA;
Christopher Crim, San Jose, CA (US);
David Mckee, Tracy, CA (US);
Stephen Iremonger, Mountain View, CA (US);
Toufic Milan, Ottawa, CA;
Vladimir Brad, Ottawa, CA;
Christopher Crim, San Jose, CA (US);
David McKee, Tracy, CA (US);
Stephen Iremonger, Mountain View, CA (US);
Toufic Milan, Ottawa, CA;
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, program products, and systems for displaying data in formatted views using reference files are described. In some implementations, a database application program can generate a result set using one or more queries. The result set can contain actual data from a database and metadata. The metadata can contain references to data records in the database, the references can include identifiers that can identify the data records. When a user saves a database report file, the user can save at least a part of the result set using the identifiers instead of the queries and layouts. Thus, the result set can be saved as a reference file. When the database application program opens the saved reference file, the database application program can reproduce the result set using the stored references without running all of the queries.