Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Smart fill
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Application No.: US13918878Application Date: 2013-06-14
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Publication No.: US10229101B2Publication Date: 2019-03-12
- Inventor: Carlos Augusto Otero , John Campbell , Uhl Albert , Daniel Parish , Aaron Lamar Wilson , Steve Tullis
- Applicant: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Applicant Address: US WA Redmond
- Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Current Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Redmond
- Agency: Merchant & Gould
- Main IPC: G06F17/00
- IPC: G06F17/00 ; G06F17/24 ; G06F3/0484 ; G06F9/451

Abstract:
A smart fill feature is provided, which may be utilized to provide suggestions to a user and to prepopulate fill results in a spreadsheet. Characteristics associated with a set of data may be recognized and used to help determine fill results Suggestions may be determined from internal and or/external data sources, and may use contextual information in a data set to determine what a user may be trying to accomplish. External data sources may include one or more Internet data sources or internal corporate databases, providing a large amount of data from which to search for potential fill results. A split column command may be used to split a column into two or more columns. Data may be split between columns or combined by various methods, which may include, by example, by direct manipulation via tokens, or via a slider UI.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140372857A1 Smart Fill Public/Granted day:2014-12-18
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