Daniel Raymond Clay

US Patent:

20060036939, Feb 16, 2006

Filed:

Aug 13, 2004

Appl. No.:

10/917610

Inventors:

Craig Hobbs - Seattle WA, US
Daniel Clay - Newcastle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/24

US Classification:

715503000

Abstract:

A facility for enabling the use of user-defined function in a spreadsheet document made up of cells is described. The facility receives a trigger to evaluate cells that include a distinguished cell. In response to receiving the trigger, the facility determines that the distinguished cell contains an invocation of a user-defined function. In response to determining that the distinguished cell contains an invocation of a user-defined function, the facility applies the user-defined function defined in the second cell to both (a) determine a result value for the invocation of the user-defined function and (b) from the determiner's old value, obtain a value for the distinguished cell.

US Patent:

20130185339, Jul 18, 2013

Filed:

Jan 13, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/350118

Inventors:

Daniel Clay - Newcastle WA, US
Michael Woolf - Seattle WA, US
Matthew Dorbin - Seattle WA, US
Stephanie Lorraine Horn - Bellevue WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Corporation - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06F 17/30

US Classification:

707821, 707E1701

Abstract:

Systems and methods are disclosed in which a self-describing file is generated and utilized to provide applications with the ability to properly preserve unknown file content. A self-describing file may contain, or be associated with, an extension section that provides information that an application can use to properly calculate unknown file content. The extension section may include functions of formulas that the application can use to calculate values for data that the application would not otherwise support. This allows for the content of the self-describing file to be modified by an application that does not support all of the capabilities of the file while maintaining the integrity of the file and user experience when the file is subsequently accessed by a full featured application.

US Patent:

20160104306, Apr 14, 2016

Filed:

Apr 9, 2015

Appl. No.:

14/683056

Inventors:

- Redmond WA, US
Daniel J. Clay - Newcastle WA, US
Qijin Zhou - Bellevue WA, US
Peter H. Hufnagel - Seattle WA, US
Michael Woolf - Seattle WA, US

Assignee:

Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC. - Redmond WA

International Classification:

G06T 11/20
G06K 9/52

Abstract:

A data visualization platform architecture that enables building of a data visualization via a one-directional chain of separate stages is provided, wherein each stage has a simple input interface and output interface. The staging of the architecture enables the data visualization to be provisioned while using fewer system resources and for additional behaviors to be applied to the visualization. Such behaviors include: transforming data from an arbitrary format, modular updates to data visualizations, client-independent operation, reduced-cost updating and extension of the platform, reduced-cost animations, etc. Aspects of the data visualization platform streamline and optimize the performance of a computing device that provides a data visualization.