18453262. INTEGRATING EXTERNAL PROGRAM CODE WITH SPREADSHEET APPLICATION (Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC)

INTEGRATING EXTERNAL PROGRAM CODE WITH SPREADSHEET APPLICATION

Organization Name

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Inventor(s)

Joseph John Mcdaid of Seattle WA (US)

Keyur Patel of Seattle WA (US)

Arturo Goicochea Hoefken of Seattle WA (US)

Eoin Burke of Seattle WA (US)

Su-Piao Wu of Sammamish WA (US)

James Masson of Seattle WA (US)

Christopher Gross of Redmond WA (US)

Jake Elliot Armstrong of Toronto (CA)

Carlos Augusto Otero of Seattle WA (US)

John Herbert Martin Williams of Cambridge (GB)

Nicholas Charles Wilson of Cambridge (GB)

Andrew Donald Gordon of Cambridge (GB)

Neil Toronto of Cambridge (GB)

Anders Hejlsberg of Seattle WA (US)

Guido Van Rossum of Seattle WA (US)

Shaofeng Zhu of Seattle WA (US)

Stephen Dower of Cambridge (GB)

John Lam of Seattle WA (US)

INTEGRATING EXTERNAL PROGRAM CODE WITH SPREADSHEET APPLICATION

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18453262 titled 'INTEGRATING EXTERNAL PROGRAM CODE WITH SPREADSHEET APPLICATION

Original Abstract Submitted

A data processing system implements receiving a first input in a spreadsheet in a spreadsheet application, detecting an indication that the first input includes first executable program code, analyzing the first executable program code to identify first references to one or more first elements of the spreadsheet in the first executable program code, requesting spreadsheet data associated with the one or more first elements of the spreadsheet from the spreadsheet application, receiving the spreadsheet data from the spreadsheet application; executing the first executable program code using the spreadsheet data referenced in the first executable program code to obtain a first program code result and causing the spreadsheet application to display the first program code result in the spreadsheet application.