SPREADSHEET CALCULATION AS PART OF WORKFLOW

Patent №

US 7,908,549

Granted

2011-03-15

Filed 2005

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

4

nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11298380

A workflow includes an activity that takes advantage of spreadsheet calculations. For a spreadsheet activity, calculation and extraction of values from a spreadsheet is performed. Thus, spreadsheet calculations are integrated into workflows without user intervention. Values from previous activities in the workflow may be obtained and provided to the spreadsheet (e.g., cell values are set, modified, or adjusted). The spreadsheet may then be recalculated using these obtained values. Moreover, values from the spreadsheet may be used in subsequent parts of the workflow. Also, any number of spreadsheet activities may be incorporated into a workflow, and one spreadsheet activity may provide values to a second spreadsheet activity in the workflow.

AI classification

Planning0.98
Natural language0.96
AI hardware0.86
Knowledge representation0.76
Evolutionary computation0.49
Vision0.01
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 172530660

Assignors

KHEN, DAN Y., BATTAGIN, DAN, MEGIDDO, ERAN, ASNASH, LIVIU, BISHEL, SCOTT WALTER

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

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