AUTOMATIC RELATIONSHIP DETECTION FOR SPREADSHEET DATA ITEMS

Patent №

US 9,852,121

Granted

2017-12-26

Filed 2015

Owner

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

AI components

4

nlp · kr · planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

14666259

A system for automatically detecting relationships in spreadsheet data is disclosed. The system may be configured to analyze data items in the spreadsheet to determine whether two or more data items are unrelated. If the two or more data items are unrelated, then the system may notify a user of a need to define the relationship, and automatically defines the relationship for the two or more data items, or suggests the relationship to the user.

Natural languageKnowledge representationPlanningAI hardwareG06F 40/18G06F 9/44G06F 16/00G06F 16/211G06N 5/02G06Q 10/10

AI classification

Knowledge representation0.96
Planning0.95
Natural language0.82
AI hardware0.51
Machine learning0.02
Evolutionary computation0.00
Vision0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

MICROSOFT CORPORATION

assignment · 352350497

Assignors

FOLTING, ALLAN, HANDY, STEPHEN VAN DE WALKER, OPPENHEIMER, DIEGO M., GRABAR, ANATOLY V.

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

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