EMBEDDED SPREADSHEET DATA IMPLEMENTATION AND SYNCHRONIZATION

Patent №

US 11,741,300

Granted

2023-08-29

Filed 2017

Owner

DROPBOX, INC.

Lab

AI components

3

nlp · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

15802458

A collaborative content management system allows for the mutual-synchronization of content within a spreadsheet and within a document in which a set of spreadsheet cells are embedded. When a user modifies the embedded set of cells, the spreadsheet is updated to reflect the modification. A set of tasks, for instance each associated with descriptive text and one or more interactive elements, can be incorporated into a set of spreadsheet cells such that a user can interact with the tasks. A data value from a spreadsheet cell can be embedded into a document such that when the spreadsheet is updated and the data value changes, the corresponding embedded data value within the document can be changed. Spreadsheets can also include comments that can be navigated using a movable interface element that changes position within the spreadsheet based on a location of a set of cells corresponding to a comment.

Natural languagePlanningAI hardwareG06F 40/18G06F 16/23G06F 16/27G06F 16/93

AI classification

Planning1.00
Natural language1.00
AI hardware0.95
Speech0.04
Knowledge representation0.03
Machine learning0.02
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00

Ownership

DROPBOX, INC.

assignment · 440440551

Assignors

SILK, GABRIEL, UDELL, ANDREW, MAHADEVAN, ARJUN

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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