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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2013
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Mark Bernstein, San Francisco, CA (US);
Matthew R. Lehrian, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Ryan M. Olshavsky, San Jose, CA (US);
Yik Shing Yip, Fremont, CA (US);
Christopher Douglas Weeldreyer, San Carlos, CA (US);
Jane H. Chronis, Mountain View, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Approaches are disclosed for generating a menu that may be used to provide a set of bounded options for populating associated cells of a table. In certain embodiments, the menu is automatically generated based at least in part on the initial content of one or more cells to be associated with the menu. In certain embodiments, the options listed in the menu may be edited by a user or reformatted based on logic associated with the menu generation process.